Originally Posted by
Jeterpool
The way football is played in this league, you need quick, mobile front 3 - at the very least a striker. Look at the successful teams in the league and the attributes of the striker they have - Berisha, Maclaren, Bridge, Fornaroli, Keogh. They are all pretty similar. Teams without a mobile front 3 are struggling - Sydney, Wellington, Us and the Gypos. The team that don't conform to this are Adelaide. They're probably a good example how a team who break away from the type of striker mentioned can be successful. There's no reason with Milos leading the line we can't be successful - we just can't expect him to do what the rest of the league do.
Our problem is simply scoring goals and I think it's more to do with the front 4 unit than 1 individual player. Not including yesterday, we've had 193 shots on goal this season. We've have 51 on target - just under 2.5 per match. We've scored 20 goals so the conversion is pretty good. Behind Milos, our leading scorer is on 3 and he's now playing for a team two hours down the road. Behind him is Kanta and Norstrand who have scored 2 each. We've only had 8 different scorers which is even less than the shambles of a season last year when we had 10.
Plague makes a good point - the chance Milos fluffed in the first half was only a chance because of his excellent ball out to Enver. He then busted a gut to get in the box but ran out of steam. He wlaos pressed a number of times to close down.
Instead of lambasting Milos, I think we need to look at the front 4 unit as a whole. Their tracking back yesterday was poor. Leomardo, while positive when he has the ball in so much as he's always looking to run forward, he sooks everytime he's dispossessed or the play breaks down. Nordstrand was less effective this week and the same can be said for the last. Enver seems able to break the play down well - it's a shame it's more often than not our attacking move.
The Wanderers pressed very well as a unit yesterday and it forced our play and created countless turnovers. Bridge pressed from the front and really impressed me. Overall our players looked lost, looked on a different wavelength. Almost like they were strangers and hadn't played together.
My theory - they played their grand final two weeks ago and it's taking some time to recover from that. But our front unit needs to be refreshed. I would start by dropping Enver and Milos. I'd move Nordstrand central and retain Leo. I'd introduce Kitto or Cooper left, Lundy or Brennan right.
