LONE STRIKER V TWIN STRIKERS

Henshman

Henshman

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Please can one of The Mighty Pool statisticians help out?
We have three main strikers, Madine, Yates, and Simms.
I think none of them work well as a lone striker in a 4-3-3, but with any two of them on the pitch, we play far better, and put teams under pressure in a 4-4-2.
It is demoralising whenever we go down to a lone striker from having two on.

Even if it means splitting a match into two, can someone work out how we have done.
For example, yesterday.

Twin strikers.
P.....W.....D.....L....F.....A....Pts
1.....1......0.....0....1.....0 .....3

Lone striker
P......W.....D.....L.....F.....A.....Pts
1......0......0.....1.....0.....1.......0
 
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I think I know what you mean and it'd be something like this from time on the pitch

Yates on his own or as a false 9 in a three
P15 W6 D4 L5 F9 A9 PTS22

Madine on his own
P8 W0 D5 L3 F1 A4 PTS7

Combinations of Madine/Simms/Yates
P20 W11 D6 L3 F24 A13 PTS39
 
None of which are providing anywhere near the amount of goals a successful team needs.
If it wasn't for the defence the season would be well and truly over.

Having seen all of the numerous formations we have used this season, the conclusion I have come to is that none of them are being implemented particularly well.
Only scoring 1 a game is all well and good when you're able to keep a clean sheet, but this is League One football, it ain't gonna happen week in, week out for around 30 games.
 
poolfc said:
I think I know what you mean and it'd be something like this from time on the pitch

Yates on his own or as a false 9 in a three
P15 W6 D4 L5 F9 A9 PTS22

Madine on his own
P8 W0 D5 L3 F1 A4 PTS7

Combinations of Madine/Simms/Yates
P20 W11 D6 L3 F24 A13 PTS39
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Thanks poolfc for doing that.
I understand, BlackpoolsFinest, that we aren't scoring enough goals either way, but it's patently obvious that results with twin strikers are far better than when we have a lone striker on the pitch. The problems start as soon as we revert to a lone striker because our opponents change their formation to send one or two extra players up front to pressure our defence.

I hope Neil Critchley understands that when Madine is fit, he must keep two of the three on the pitch throughout every remaining match.
I know players cannot maintain their top form whilst playing every Tuesday and Saturday for weeks on end, but I'm sure he could have a seperate rotation just between the three of them to keep two playing.
 
Only way we could successfully play a 433 is if we improve the quality of the link up play drastically and push the wingers so far up the pitch that they’re effectively playing as second strikers. No use playing Yates on the wing and sitting deep, but no use playing Yates/Sims/Madine isolated on their own in the middle. They must have adequate support from another man next to them or a constant supply of intense link up attack from the flanks.
 
Matesrates said:
The mantra should be, we score and then try to score again and again, if they score we score two. In other words, positive, attacking football.
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I agree, Ian Holloway did exactly that, and for anyone who is old enough, so did Stan Mortensen, and Allan Brown when they were managers of The Mighty Pool.
 
In my opinion, Armand Gnanduillet would certainly have been an asset to the squad, and having four strikers would easily have enabled us to have two of them playing for the 90 minutes of all matches. If we were losing towards the end of a match, bring a third or fourth on to try and get an equaliser.
 
Cable Cat said:
Blimey - does that mean Madine wasn't as effective as Gnanduillet?
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Simon Grayson set his team up differently to Neil Critchley, but I can see why you think Madine isn't as effective as Gnanduillet by looking at how he has done as a lone striker. I think Gary Madine is very good working in a twin strikers role.
 
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