Sterling is no Rush, suddenly he is asked to play the centre forward role and we can come to expect those 1 to 1 misses, and I'm sure he will improve. I'm not defending him but just trying to be fair here as I cursed as much as many here did when he missed some sitters.
More importantly is who plays along side Sterling inside the box? No one, eventhough there's one, nowhere to be seen.
That's what I've been harping along, this is one of the combo attacks that BR can try while Sturridge is still off injured, he has no choice and he can't continue to work on his failed projects of a lone Lambert or Balo striker. He has a quick Sterling, a skilfull Markovich/Cou a robust Lambert and a swashbuckling style Lallana, he has to somewhat work on some combos to make these players gel. Give these players to any top attacking coach, we will most probably be a high scoring team.
What we really needed to do is get players inside the box fast when Sterling is running towards it so that we can open up spaces and create scoring chances not ball watch outside the box and expects Sterling to dribble the ball into goal, that's what he's doing exactly now
Lallana and Markovic are the ones that can run into the box, moreso Lallana, watch his Southampton days, not camping outside the box or at the sides, it has taken the effectiveness out of him.
However, Sterling needs to be more aware of our players inside the box, at times he tend to over dribble while a simple side pass to someone in the box would have gotten us a goal.
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