Just listening to Carra on sky analyzing our two strikers and I agree, Johnno back will be key to our recent system.. Deffo missed this lad..
Yeah Chico, I totally agree.
It's been mentioned quite a few times in here and I've said it a number of times myself; Glen, (like any of our backs in this system) is valuable because of his attacking capabilities. We do our defending by attacking and keeping the ball up the pitch.
The two centre halves (more recently three) and the defensive midfield offer the cover should Glen and/or whoever get 'caught' up-field. It's actually very obvious and has been for a long time now. We do not use wingers (in the conventional sense); the width is offered by Glen and Jose, for example. We do not use full backs (in the conventional sense); see above.
If anyone still believes our full-backs should be just that and can't understand that Glen (attacking) is more important to the team than Glen (defending) then I'm afraid they haven't grasped the concept of how we are trying to play.
We haven't got anyone as good as Glen in that role so, to that end, he's obviously going to be missed. Three clean sheets before his injury, none after it, should maybe also give a clue to his importance, to the team, "defensively" and that he's not too shoddy in that department either.
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