25 Sep 2020 19:16:45
In my opinion our 3 best players are:

Edouard
McGregor
Elyounoussi

All 3 were at the club last year and Lennon would have known from early in the year that all 3 would be here at start of this season at least with Elyounoussi extending his loan pretty early.

All 3 should be starting every game in their favoured position. I am flabbergasted that this is not happening and Lennon is putting out a system that doesn't seem to have a place for Elyounoussi and that McGregor isn't looking effective in.

The 3/ 5/ 2 system also takes Forrest's A game away as he is an attacking Mid, not a wing back. Frimpong would be a great wing back but we would have an imbalance as we clearly don't have the same option down the left with Taylor not really suited to that role.

Most teams who come up against us will have 1 striker up front. Why do we need 3 central defenders to deal with this? I get why he adopted the formation at Hibs as it can act as a back 5 if you have the right players, but very rarely will we ever need a back 5. We did at Lazio away and it worked but it doesn't mean its a formation we will need week in, week out.

We have invested a decent outlay on Ajeti and by all means he looks like he knows where the net is. When he is firing on all cylinders I imagine he will start every week.

With no chance of Edouard being dropped or being asked to play off the left the only option is to have 2 upfront. Even if Edouard is sold Ajeti is not the type of striker who will be effective upfront on his own.

The system that plays to our strengths most is 4/ 4/ 2 in my opinion. Our best players all play in their correct position.

There's 2 reasons why I think Lennon is against 4/ 4/ 2

1) He is spooked by what happened in previous matches against Sevco, they will always sit 3 in the middle of the park. The midfield battle was lost but probably wasn't helped by playing an unfit Elyounoussi and Lewis Morgan or Mickey Johnstone in the next one.

2) The team can't carry Brown in a 4/ 4/ 2 and he's not got the balls to drop him this season.

This team in my opinion strolls the league.

Barkas

Taylor
Duffy
Julien
Frimpong

Elyounoussi
Ntcham
McGregor
Forrest

Ajeti
Edouard

Its fluid enough that players like Turnbull, Brown, Christie, Klimala and Griffiths can all come in and play their part as well. Its easily tweaked to a 4/ 1/ 4/ 1 or 4/ 2/ 3/ 1 in games where we need to make sure the midfield is not outnumbered and overrun.

There's a flatness about the team which you would never have thought coming in to the season given what's at stake. Lennon has all but confirmed there is problems behind the scenes with players wanting to move on before back tracking. Hopefully whatever it is gets sorted pronto starting with 3 points on Sunday.


1.) 25 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 20:48:40
The 352 dominated last season with practically the same squad. The problem isn't the formation its NL playing players out of position.


2.) 25 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 20:55:24
Getting more than a few negatives on
here Tim's, myself I can see only one, our play down the left side of the park is no where near our sharpness on the right and I'm afraid the problem is with our left back he never takes a man on and a lot of our moves forward are breaking down and his over all play is inadequate I may sound harsh but this is the Holy Grail 10 we are on about here But my one negative is different from the rest, because I Know that Lenny will sort it rest assured it will be fixed, In lennon we Trust.


3.) 26 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 23:38:45
Elyounoussi is overated, and nowhere near one of our best players.