I never said we were piss poor, I said the squad was piss poor. When the likes of McGregor, Furuhashi are fit we looked good, when we lose players to injury those coming in, the squad players, are piss poor. We don't have a functioning midfield without McGregor.
The squad isn't strong enough or good enough to win anything. If our main players are fit we will win most domestic games.
furuhashi can run into spaces well and exploit gaps in opps defence
Im not so sure he will be good against closed shop defence who dont push out much?
We spend lot of time crossing against these types of teams and we still have no aerial threat of note from crosses
We have decent long range shooters but they are never long range shooting coz they are not really set up to exploit shots from range.
Against a team with big defenders and lots of them who dont venture away from their 18 yard line, crosses need to be better or 1 touch and run 1 two and move with specific plan against their weakest link
Or long range cannons to test keeper for spills on second ball or deflections
But just randomly crossing with small striker or to nobody in particular is just weak
we created pretty much zero good chances doing the same thing every attack
out to wing no real danger in cross
just hit and hope
no 1 touch passing through middle
no targeting of their weak links
just playing into their strengths and exposing our backline to turnover counter
if they had better wingers we would lost more goals today
block that 1 central mid we have and harry our defenders and we will lose ball or just hit and hope while 2 acm are not available to playmake since they are waiting for defenders to be the playmakers
tactics were gash against that setup
2 acm is equivalent to playing 1acm imo
it adds very little to the attack and confuses them both as to who is doing what or when
just rotten imo
we really should have at least 1 big tall strong centre forward in our arsenal
we have no aerial threat up front really
and even in defence we are suspect at high balls
if we had had a win today would be hard to critice but we lost away again
and against that level of opposition just playing standard 442 and long ball would create more chances than that performance