I fail to see CQ's resistance to using two strikers at the same time. Judging from the recent games, whenever he has dropped the crappy 4-2-3-1 with single forward, for one with two strikers we've shown much more aggression, penetration, dangerous in the box and even scored goals (sadly scoring goals is such a tough task in CQ's teams).
Lucky goal or not, the presence of a second striker does impact the outcome.
Lets try the fluke of a goal against qatar. Where with pressing by both Ansarifard AND RGN, the qatari CD was forced to back pass to the keeper. And with BOTH our guys continuing to press and move towards the keeper from two different angles, the keeper had no time to gather his wits about him and was rushed to kick as soon as he got the ball, which led to his mistake. And the presence of the second striker was the reason for the goal as the qatari defender stretched and tackled Ansarifard, inadvertently he passed it to RGN to score.
Now imagine if we had one striker up front with three BEHIND him.
That initial press would have been less effective as there would be an extra qatari player available to receive the CD's pass instead of the keeper. And the rest, you can imagine. They'd keep the ball and continue to frustrate us for another 2 minutes as they'd done in the 94 prior minutes.
And where would we be? Two points from two games.
Yes, CQ and his fans would be ecstatic and elated that ''nobody can score on us'' and ''we are unbeaten'' and whatnot. But the reality would be we'd be heading to a fate much like Daei's team that had one too many draws and too few wins to gather points!
What I propose is what I've been doing tor the past many many years. Almost ever since Branko the wimp forced this foolish 4-2-3-1 formation down our throats that has proven UNSUITABLE for our football, no matter who's the coach or who's in the line up.
My proposal is the diamond 4-4-2 , in other words, 4-1-2-1-2, which gives you pretty much everything you need in a formation. It is a far simpler formation than 4-2-3-1 which makes delivering the tasks and duties by players far easier and probable. Especially for our not-so professional players and general football set up.
You have your four defenders covering the width of the pitch and fullbacks that can participate in attacks, overlaps, ... etc.
You have a Def-Mid who will form a barrier in front of the defense, cuts and intercepts build ups by opponent, also assists in winning the ball back to distribute up field
You also have a creative playmaker. Something that is sorely missing un TM atm. Someone who creates plays, provides opportunities for forwards or sprays the ball to flanks to bring wing play. This is what we're missing as our attacks are usually lobs from defenders. And the few that get built up from midfield, are usually disjointed and appear haphazard.
You get two flank mids, who not only participate and help in defense but also can become wingers, join in attack, use crosses or cut backs or ...
And finally, you get TWO targets who split the defenders in the box. Thus relieving the pressure off the single forward mode, which means more opportunities for each one as well as more options and routes to score (especially if each player has different characteristics like RGN's natural instinct of finding half chances, extreme running and hustling paired up with Azmoun's aerial abilities and energy).
The good thing is we do have all the players suited for such a formation. In some posts, more than enough in fact, which is a blessing.
I truly fail to see why CQ opts out of using all our potentials at a time. And divides and uses it in portions and sections instead.
Lucky goal or not, the presence of a second striker does impact the outcome.
Lets try the fluke of a goal against qatar. Where with pressing by both Ansarifard AND RGN, the qatari CD was forced to back pass to the keeper. And with BOTH our guys continuing to press and move towards the keeper from two different angles, the keeper had no time to gather his wits about him and was rushed to kick as soon as he got the ball, which led to his mistake. And the presence of the second striker was the reason for the goal as the qatari defender stretched and tackled Ansarifard, inadvertently he passed it to RGN to score.
Now imagine if we had one striker up front with three BEHIND him.
That initial press would have been less effective as there would be an extra qatari player available to receive the CD's pass instead of the keeper. And the rest, you can imagine. They'd keep the ball and continue to frustrate us for another 2 minutes as they'd done in the 94 prior minutes.
And where would we be? Two points from two games.
Yes, CQ and his fans would be ecstatic and elated that ''nobody can score on us'' and ''we are unbeaten'' and whatnot. But the reality would be we'd be heading to a fate much like Daei's team that had one too many draws and too few wins to gather points!
What I propose is what I've been doing tor the past many many years. Almost ever since Branko the wimp forced this foolish 4-2-3-1 formation down our throats that has proven UNSUITABLE for our football, no matter who's the coach or who's in the line up.
My proposal is the diamond 4-4-2 , in other words, 4-1-2-1-2, which gives you pretty much everything you need in a formation. It is a far simpler formation than 4-2-3-1 which makes delivering the tasks and duties by players far easier and probable. Especially for our not-so professional players and general football set up.
You have your four defenders covering the width of the pitch and fullbacks that can participate in attacks, overlaps, ... etc.
You have a Def-Mid who will form a barrier in front of the defense, cuts and intercepts build ups by opponent, also assists in winning the ball back to distribute up field
You also have a creative playmaker. Something that is sorely missing un TM atm. Someone who creates plays, provides opportunities for forwards or sprays the ball to flanks to bring wing play. This is what we're missing as our attacks are usually lobs from defenders. And the few that get built up from midfield, are usually disjointed and appear haphazard.
You get two flank mids, who not only participate and help in defense but also can become wingers, join in attack, use crosses or cut backs or ...
And finally, you get TWO targets who split the defenders in the box. Thus relieving the pressure off the single forward mode, which means more opportunities for each one as well as more options and routes to score (especially if each player has different characteristics like RGN's natural instinct of finding half chances, extreme running and hustling paired up with Azmoun's aerial abilities and energy).
The good thing is we do have all the players suited for such a formation. In some posts, more than enough in fact, which is a blessing.
I truly fail to see why CQ opts out of using all our potentials at a time. And divides and uses it in portions and sections instead.
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