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If you look at Man City & Liverpool's teams over the last few years, you'll notice they have 5 attackers on the pitch most of the time. By attackers, I mean players who's jobs are to contribute heavily to getting them goals by assisting or scoring.
Liverpool :
Mane, Salah, Firmino, Robertson & Trent
Man City :
Aguero, Sterling, David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Sane/Bernardo
The composition of the attacking players vary quite a bit between both clubs. For example, Liverpool have two very, very attacking full backs while Man City often play with 2 very, very attacking CMs. But the numbers are key, these players are in positions to hurt the opposition. They've then just built the rest of the team around the attackers, to be defensively solid and provide control while letting these guys occupy positions that hurt the opposition. Liverpool do it with a very solid but unimaginative midfield, and City for the most part don't put as much attacking responsibility on their full backs. They still need to contribute in terms of width, cut backs but they don't need to put up Robertson or TAA type of numbers.
We've struggled for a long time with goals & both of these teams have exposed our lack of goal scoring prowess. It's not just because of the lack of quality, but simply we don't have enough players on the pitch in positions that can cause damage. But I think we are closer to getting there, than we've been in a long time. A line up with :
Rashford, Martial, Pogba, Bruno & James/Greenwood would be us finally fielding enough attackers on the pitch to cause enough damage. We don't need to start from scratch and buy attacking full-backs, but we should use what we have to it's best potential.
If Pogba goes, we need to replace him with another CM who can attack and provide goals/assists. It doesn't mean we put more of a burden on (one) of the other 4 players, because it's just not enough. We can address quality but having enough of them on the pitch is just as important.
Liverpool :
Mane, Salah, Firmino, Robertson & Trent
Man City :
Aguero, Sterling, David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Sane/Bernardo
The composition of the attacking players vary quite a bit between both clubs. For example, Liverpool have two very, very attacking full backs while Man City often play with 2 very, very attacking CMs. But the numbers are key, these players are in positions to hurt the opposition. They've then just built the rest of the team around the attackers, to be defensively solid and provide control while letting these guys occupy positions that hurt the opposition. Liverpool do it with a very solid but unimaginative midfield, and City for the most part don't put as much attacking responsibility on their full backs. They still need to contribute in terms of width, cut backs but they don't need to put up Robertson or TAA type of numbers.
We've struggled for a long time with goals & both of these teams have exposed our lack of goal scoring prowess. It's not just because of the lack of quality, but simply we don't have enough players on the pitch in positions that can cause damage. But I think we are closer to getting there, than we've been in a long time. A line up with :
Rashford, Martial, Pogba, Bruno & James/Greenwood would be us finally fielding enough attackers on the pitch to cause enough damage. We don't need to start from scratch and buy attacking full-backs, but we should use what we have to it's best potential.
If Pogba goes, we need to replace him with another CM who can attack and provide goals/assists. It doesn't mean we put more of a burden on (one) of the other 4 players, because it's just not enough. We can address quality but having enough of them on the pitch is just as important.