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Three at the back
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:55 am
by Nos89
There seems to be a great furore over Conte using 3 at the back. It's a formation that's been around for years and didn't Graham use it in the last 10 games of 88-89 season​? Famously Steve Bould trotting out at Anfield on that great night with the number 10 on his back.
Re: Three at the back
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:11 pm
by Sean
Wasn't it 5-4-1 at Anfield 89?
It's mad to think that TOF would ever change his tactics now. Still, three at the back could work. 3-5-2, or 3-2-3-1-1.
---------------- Ospina
Koscielny - Mustafi - Holding
----------- Xhaka - Elneny
----- Walcott - Ozil - Oxlade
--------------- Sanchez
--------------- Welbeck
Christ, our midfield is full of bottlers/idiots
Re: Three at the back
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 4:07 pm
by OneBardGooner
Three at the back!!! I thought it was some kind of porn thread!
Re: Three at the back
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:19 am
by g88ner
Sean wrote:Wasn't it 5-4-1 at Anfield 89?
It's mad to think that TOF would ever change his tactics now. Still, three at the back could work. 3-5-2, or 3-2-3-1-1.
---------------- Ospina
Koscielny - Mustafi - Holding
----------- Xhaka - Elneny
----- Walcott - Ozil - Oxlade
--------------- Sanchez
--------------- Welbeck
Christ, our midfield is full of bottlers/idiots
To be fair, if we did play 3 at the back, the wingbacks would be Bellerin and Monreal/Gibbs... not fucking Walcott!!!!
(just as Chavs wingbacks are Alonso and Moses; it's not a position for attacking wide players)
Re: Three at the back
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:37 am
by Sean
Well this is The Old Fraud we're dealing with
He has no respect for defence. Then again, as our alleged 'full backs' play like out and out wingers and always go AWOL from our defence...
Re: Three at the back
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:57 am
by northbank123
Sean wrote:Well this is The Old Fraud we're dealing with
He has no respect for defence. Then again, as our alleged 'full backs' play like out and out wingers and always go AWOL from our defence...
The biggest irony is that we have suffered so much by giving our full backs near-unlimited licence to bomb forward without caution, despite having some of the most impotent full backs around in the past decade.
Clichy, Sagna, Gibbs, Monreal - all awful going forward and none can deliver a decent ball into the box. Bellerin is the best of the lot but frankly he is in the Kyle Walker mode (and not the one that terrorised Neil Taylor in France) - his pace makes him look far more dangerous than he is.
Re: Three at the back
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:45 pm
by Sean
Fucking Nostradamus in this thread
TOF has
finally been desperate enough to do three at the back.
------------------- Ospina
--- Koscielny - Mustafi - Holding
Oxlade - Xhaka - Elneny - Monreal
-------------- Sanchez - Ozil
------------------ Welbeck