I know this will sound silly but I have been feeling for a while that our midfield is actually quite weak, not in a defensive sense, we are obviously very strong there with Hendo, Fabinho etc, but in terms of attack we have almost zero creativity from midfield. I know this is partly by design as the midfield is supposed to contain play allowing the fullbacks to bomb forwards but I think we need to add another dimension to our play and that would be to have a really good attacking midfielder in the team, or two.
As an example just look at City in the first 25 minutes yesterday against Villa, they were met with a very low block but instead of just having a front three to aim to and lumping balls into them they effectively had about 8 players all making runs and intricate give and go's etc, it was so much more dynamic than we've been playing recently with our slow ponderous play and midfielders just passing sideways and down to the full backs, with none of them making a run forwards into the box.
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