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So how does that leave our squad looking?
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I am very happy to be honest, much happier than I was last season. We have real depth and options now which I felt we were a little bit lacking at times. We also have tactical options, we can play Sane and Mane as wingers and tell them to hit the target man with Rondon, or we can play Kagawa/Correa/Arnold/Gomez and try and work our way in to the box patiently.
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Tactically I am going to stick with the 4-2-3-1 formation that we ended last season with and give it a chance to work. I reckon the quality of player that we now have is enough to control games in the Bundesliga and this formation offers a nice balance and created different attacking paths.
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This is what I have come up with, and is probably going to be the side we put out for our first game of the season. The keys to this formation are the two holding midfielders in the middle. They need to cover a lot of ground and sniff out counter attacks, while also looking to restart counter attacks from any balls they do intercept. Rodriguez is going to be given licence to get forward from the lift with the player in front of him cutting inside to create space. The right winger, probably Mane or Sane will be all about running at and committing defenders, creating space for the central attacking mid and the striker to run in to.
So how does that leave our squad looking?
View attachment 119277
I am very happy to be honest, much happier than I was last season. We have real depth and options now which I felt we were a little bit lacking at times. We also have tactical options, we can play Sane and Mane as wingers and tell them to hit the target man with Rondon, or we can play Kagawa/Correa/Arnold/Gomez and try and work our way in to the box patiently.
View attachment 119273
Tactically I am going to stick with the 4-2-3-1 formation that we ended last season with and give it a chance to work. I reckon the quality of player that we now have is enough to control games in the Bundesliga and this formation offers a nice balance and created different attacking paths.
View attachment 119270
This is what I have come up with, and is probably going to be the side we put out for our first game of the season. The keys to this formation are the two holding midfielders in the middle. They need to cover a lot of ground and sniff out counter attacks, while also looking to restart counter attacks from any balls they do intercept. Rodriguez is going to be given licence to get forward from the lift with the player in front of him cutting inside to create space. The right winger, probably Mane or Sane will be all about running at and committing defenders, creating space for the central attacking mid and the striker to run in to.