mcarz speaks sense imo. Our main midfielders are too similar. We have Hendo, Milner, Can & Allen, and whilst they are good enough individually to compete vs the big teams, our midfield has no balance, it's partly the reason why we get dominated so much in midfield.
If you go back to our games last 2 seasons, the majority of battles won in midfield was when we had Lucas playing, a player who stifled and controlled the middle, and lets be honest here, can we see our box-box midfielders playing in that specialist role as good as Lucas? Not for me. There is no chance in hell we can win the midfield battle without a specialist DM/DLPM on a consistent basis, we need a huge upgrade to Lucas to propel us to the next level.
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