I think the issue of formations is largely blather, despite Glenn Hoddle’s views when he was England manager. England’s most successful manager since Sir Alf was Mike Bassett and he got it right with 442. It’s all down to having decent players using their brains. In the first half Brighton looked better because when they had the ball they always had 2 or 3 players in space, unmarked, to receive a quick pass. Their left winger and the no2 in the middle always seemed to have 20 yards of space around them and time to cause problems accordingly before any Leeds player got near them. By contrast as soon as a Leeds player received the ball there were 2 Brighton on him straight away and no outlets as the Leeds players just stood around with markers on them. Why haven’t we got a captain and manager who could see this and sort it, rather than just rigidly carry on with plan A which clearly wasn’t working? On Saturday Warnock kept Adomah quiet by keeping close to him-last night Byram was nowhere near the left winger.
I am surprised no-one has commented on Ajose. I cant see what he contributes. No good in the air, cant beat a man, runs down blind alleys, cant put in a decent cross, and loses the ball almost every time he has it. In the second half, when Byram started to show interest, we had a few decent moves down the right but nothing down the left all match. We would be better playing Cooke orTaylor than Ajose-at least Taylor can cross the ball.
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