Mayenda and Isidor


MonkeyLove

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I’d love to see it being given a go from the start but anyone else reconsidering if it’s really the way forward?

To be fair to Le Bris he has given it a go for about 50 minutes over the last 2 games and for me it hasn’t really worked.

It’s not just the link up but going 4-4-2 I don’t think helps us. We started losing the midfield battle against Wednesday and we’re hanging on at the end.

Today by far our best period was early in the first half which was partly down to how relentless we were at winning it back in midfield and being able to build an attack again.

They are our best attacking threats so would be great to find a way to get them on the pitch together but 4-4-2 I’m not sure works. If anything for me it has to be like earlier in the season where Mayenda takes Roberts place where we keep our 4-3-3 shape but he drifts somewhere between the wing and a second striker
 
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It was clear in the first 10 minutes that Cardiff where there for the taking, we then took foot off the pedal and it was a very hard watch. At least with those 2 playing I feel we had a chance. You are right though at the beginning we were great and the link up play, pace and physicality was a joy to watch, then it just petered out into nothingness which is incredibly frustrating.
 
have I plucked this from thin air or did Jack Clarke get 26 G/A’s last season. Completely replaced him and then have Mundle in his position who is class
 
They've scored 19 between them in the league despite being given limited minutes.

If they both started every game from the start of the season they'd have 30+ between them by now..

It's ludicrous we don't play them both in home games against weak opposition
Hopefully rlb has plans to utilise
 
They've scored 19 between them in the league despite being given limited minutes.

If they both started every game from the start of the season they'd have 30+ between them by now..

It's ludicrous we don't play them both in home games against weak opposition

Would we though?

As I say the sacrifice of playing them both 4-4-2 is we lose our shape and the midfield battle.

Our best football in the last 2 games has been with only 1 up front.
 
have I plucked this from thin air or did Jack Clarke get 26 G/A’s last season. Completely replaced him and then have Mundle in his position who is class
15 goals. 4 assists. 19 G+A

He took our Pens so a few of the goals were from the spot.
 
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Would we though?

As I say the sacrifice of playing them both 4-4-2 is we lose our shape and the midfield battle.

Our best football in the last 2 games has been with only 1 up front.

Our most effective game this season, given the opposition and our injury ravished squad, was sheff utd at home..he was forced to play 4-4-2... We conceded a lot of possession but looked like scoring every time we got the ball, and quite rightfully beat them, with mayenda and Isidor causing them absolute hell

Maybe Sheffield Wednesday away wasn't the time and place, but hull / Cardiff / Portsmouth/ Luton certainly was.
 
Problem is we've only got 2 strikers available so would need to change the system if one of them tires later in the game.
Agree. Maybe if Danns or we'd signed a fit striker in January RLB could have risked it more often as they've looked a handful as a front two. But what happens if one is injured? revert back to 1 up front but no cover on the bench. Having said that I wouldn't mind Trey getting some game time in a front two.
Le Fee could play 10 behind a front 2 in a diamond but Mundle would miss out... ....unless he could play in a front two?? Now that would solve a problem and give us a flexible front three (Wilson/Mayenda/Mundle/Le Fee I wouldn't mind Roberts being given a go at a 10 either)
 
I’d love to see it being given a go from the start but anyone else reconsidering if it’s really the way forward?

To be fair to Le Bris he has given it a go for about 50 minutes over the last 2 games and for me it hasn’t really worked.

It’s not just the link up but going 4-4-2 I don’t think helps us. We started losing the midfield battle against Wednesday and we’re hanging on at the end.

Today by far our best period was early in the first half which was partly down to how relentless we were at winning it back in midfield and being able to build an attack again.

They are our best attacking threats so would be great to find a way to get them on the pitch together but 4-4-2 I’m not sure works. If anything for me it has to be like earlier in the season where Mayenda takes Roberts place where we keep our 4-3-3 shape but he drifts somewhere between the wing and a second striker

Another very similar performance to the others that have gone before. Decent at times, but the match could have gone either way. A familiar pattern by now.

In keeping with being fair to the manager, that's two on the belt that the manager hasn't started our best player but we've won the match. Credit where it's due.

But, does anybody really fancy us in the play offs the way we're playing at the moment? I mean really? I can see what's coming a mile off.

I've been saying for months that we can't control matches and we need a different formation and slightly different personnel on the pitch. The assumption has been that we have the players but we just haven't found the right formula, don't know about anyone else but at this point I'm scratching me head wondering: do we actually have the players?

Ever the optimist, I'm gonna put my faith in Le Fee being back beginning of April, played in the middle of the pitch, we look and are a much better team.

Otherwise, can see what's coming a mile off.

As for the question: at this stage, I would much rather see Wilson and Mayenda play together than five in midfield. We know by now that it's not going to be enough, unless Le Fee comes back in the middle of the pitch and it all clicks.
 

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