The on topic thread 4.0

[Frank Bunn]

Starts with no striker and Bellingham as false 9. Watkins and Solanke would’ve been happy

For the most part Bellingham as a false 9 worked well. He was dropping into the midfield to link the play like Kane often does. Palmer and Gordon missed good chances while England had that formation. It was more strange to have both Watkins and Solanke on the field for the final 25 minutes.

There was some very sloppy defending and not just for the goals. Carsley will have to work out whether his system was to blame, the players not understanding his system, his selections, or if it was down to individual errors.

 

[QuietB]

There's handbrake off and there's handbrake removed from the car. It is difficult to start all those players, could have maybe taken out Gordon and put Foden on the left with Watkins up top. That would have made a more balanced side imo and kept many of those attacking players in. I think the one thing people are missing is the use of TAA and Lewis. At times it looked like both were playing inverted into the middle and it was easy to get down the wings. I think Pep has it right most times in that style where he has 1 player who can play that and 3 proper defenders. Either Lewis or TAA does that, you put a proper defender on the opposite side.

Pep has Rodri as well. England have no one like Rodri.

Even when Kllopp was in his heavy metal phase at Liverpool he still had Henderson and Wijnaldum dropping back to defend and obviously Fabinho.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Pep has Rodri as well. England have no one like Rodri.

Even when Kllopp was in his heavy metal phase at Liverpool he still had Henderson and Wijnaldum dropping back to defend and obviously Fabinho.

Rice ain't Rodri, but he also ain't bad.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Nottingham Forest fined £750,000 by FA after questioning integrity of match officials

Nottingham Forest fined £750,000 by FA after questioning integrity of match officials

www.bbc.com

Serves them right.