So the only way I can think of us scoring more goals from this department is to replace the none goal scoring midfielders with the goal scoring midfielders.
Drop Jermaine Pennant on the RW and move Gerrard from the centre of the midfield as he is not been that effective there, he should be moved onto the right of midfield where he scored 23 goals in one season from.
As Gerrard has been moved from the centre of midfield to the right of midfield that means someone will need to fill in, but who? Xabi Alonso? No because he doesn't score enough goals, Lucas Leiva? Not yet, Momo Sissoko? No way, Yossi Benayoun? Yes! Why? Because he is the only other player who could play attacking midfield in the Gerrard role. He is not a Gerrard type player but he is an attacking player who'd give us flair, fluency and creativity, also this is his best position.
Next to Benayoun would have to be one defensive midfielder to balance things out. It would be between Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano & Momo Sissoko. Personally I'd chose Javier Mascherano because like Benayoun he is fluent, quick and can pass a ball but the most important is the fact that he's our best tackler we have in midfield, a player who reads the game better than most.
On the left wing is in my opinion my hardest choice to chose. Ryan Babel? Harry Kewell? Fabio Aurelio? John Arne Riise? I'd chose Ryan Babel simply because he's the only player who can play down the flanks for us with something to prove. He is only 20 years old, we can see he's got potential and we know he can score goals. If you going to play with wingers then play with two wingers but Babel and Gerrard are not wingers, but they can play on the side of midfield with the ability to score goals and create goals which I personally think Riise, Aurelio, Pennant and Kewell are poor at.
This midfield would be very creative, fluent, quick and clever, and most important would be I feel that they are well balanced.
Midfield is the main department of the team. It's like the brain of the body, it controls the game. So if you have two defensive midfielders in the middle of the park the game might be a bit slow, and too solid. If you want to play creative football, then you need to play with creative midfielders and I think Pennant & Riise are far from being creative. Two defensive midfielders wouldn't be creative enough, Gerrard thinks his best posistion is in the middle but really Rafa knows what Stevie's best posistion is and thats on the right. He won UEFA right sided midfielder of the year when he scored 23 goals from that posisition. If we had a midfield of Riise, Mascherano, Gerrard, Pennant then where is the creativity going to come from? Gerrard has been poor in the middle so far this season, Pennant and Riise are predictable and the best they can give is blind hit crosses into the box, Mascherano is a defensive midfielder.
My Midfield:
Babel---Mascherano---Benayoun---Gerrard
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