Will say and repeat it again, Ronaldo at 9 is a waste for several reasons. Both because you're not playing to his strengths and because yes, he does not fit well into the defensive part of the plan being on the central position when the ball is lost. If you rewatch yesterday's goal which was disallowed, Ronaldo is leaning into the left, makes a run, cuts inside, scores. If he was bang middle there he'd have to wait for a cross or link up play near the star of the box (which barely happens).
Ronaldo works better in spaces. I think even before his first game I was suggesting he oughta play alognside Cavani. After around 10 games, I'm actually quite glad I see a lot of people feeling the same way.
I mean, I understand it's usually not a good idea to change it up so much middle of the season, but what I don't understand about some coaches (not just Ole) is if things clearly aren't working out, why just not try something different for a change?? Just change up the players and formation. See you guys mentioning VDB so much that at this point I just wanna see the fella play to see what he is capable of.