[Albion] Does anything good ever happen when we start Welbeck and Ferguson together?

[Kalimantan Gull]

I just don't get it. Teams that play two strikers up front, expecially two tall strikers, tend to be playing long balls for knock downs or go wide and sling crosses in. Seems totally alien to our style.

We're half an hour in and we've had two good chances for strikers, ball over the top from Dunk, and a headed cross from Veltman, each ideal for a striker, and they both fell to March. So we have two big strikers on and they're not even getting our chances. Surely the extra midfielder would help?

 

[BN41Albion]

Must admit as soon as I saw them both starting I thought we'd be overloaded and feared the worst

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Lost the flair at number 10

 

[Surf's Up]

No

 

[andys320]

They won't both come out second half.

 

[ChickenBaltiPie]

They have barely had any opportunity to get involved. Villa have been snubbing us out in mid field. Mitoma & Solly have had the best opportunities. Solly fluffed the only two real chances we’ve had. (Lack of game time for him.)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

They have barely had any opportunity to get involved. Villa have been snubbing us out in mid field. Mitoma & Solly have had the best opportunities. Solly fluffed the only two real chances we’ve had. (Lack of game time for him.)

Apart from the one where Estupinan was in behind, and shot straight at the keeper?

 

[chickens]

To my mind, Evan would ideally be coming on as a 2nd half sub after opposition defences have been chasing Fati and Pedro (or Adringa) for all of the first half and fifteen minutes of the second.

I love Welbeck, but personally I want him used as an alternative Ferguson rather than an alternative Pedro/Fati.

That’s my tuppence worth, but as has been proven multiple times. I know nothing about football.

 

[One Love]

This is the first time I've started to get a bit pissed off with RDZ.

Play a 9 and a 10 not 2 9s or 2 10s.

He's been doing this this season a lot.

 

[Swimboy64]

They have barely had any opportunity to get involved. Villa have been snubbing us out in mid field. Mitoma & Solly have had the best opportunities. Solly fluffed the only two real chances we’ve had. (Lack of game time for him.)

And there is the problem as you put it being snubbed out in midfield
Last season Mc and Moises
Billy and Hinch today
I understand players are injured but with them 2 in there McGinn has had a field day
Need more in there

 

[durrington gull]

Said this earlier this season- simply not working when those 2 start together

 

[Bodian]

I'd like see Fati & Ferguson.

 

[A1X]

We’re a better team with Fati or Pedro at ten, neither Ferguson nor Welbeck have the reactions or guile

 

[jimhigham]

Dunno, but nothing good ever happens when we play Villa.

 

[Salty_Seagull]

I was just about to start this exact thread. This game, West Ham, and Bournemouth we've started with them both. They are both 9s and can't play together. We need a pacy 10 off one of them, ie, Fati or Pedro.

Baffling decisions, especially against Villa who play the high line. Look how much better we were in the second half vs Bournemouth and against Villa here. We needed that pace in behind.

I'd marry RDZ in a heart beat but the decision to start Welbz and Ferg together will constantly give me an aneurysm

 

[Munchkin]

Welbeck is a poor man’s Joao Pedro.

 

[GoingUp]

We need Ferguson in the top half of the pitch.

Big miss up there when he has to drop deep, Joao is good at that but would rather keep Fergie higher up the pitch where he can score good goals but also poach which is bread and butter.

 

[Zeus]

Welbeck at CAM just needs to stop. He’s not good there and doesn’t work back anywhere near enough to support the other midfielders.

 

[trueblue]

Seems to me it wasn’t too bad last season. We don’t have Caicedo and Mac any more though. Works much better when Fati plays as he naturally drops deep. Might as well have 9 men out there when we set up like we did at the start.

 

[Albion my Albion]

As Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca, "

"Evan, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”