Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I just posted this on the other Oscar thread but I'll post it up here despite this blatant "look at me!" troll thread:
I've just had a little look at the stats for Maccabi Tel Aviv's championship winning season for 2012-2013:
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/ma..._119_2012.html
It seems like Oscar mainly used at least 2, sometimes 3 strikers. With various permutations of 4-3-3, 5-2-3, 4-4-2 and 5-3-2.
He never once used a lone striker up front.
I'm wondering why he changed his attacking philosophy after coming here, especially regarding the lone striker. Is it because he thinks Ulloa's the only decent striker we have? Did he have a look at our crop of players and decide to stick to Poyet's formation (pretty much) because he perceived that was the best way to play to their strengths?
I think he could be a great manager for us if he was really allowed to mould the team into playing the way he played with Maccabi.
Trouble is we'd need to buy at least 3 strikers and keep Ulloa if we were to regularly play 2 up front next season.
Oscar has 2 more strikers. He left Mackail-Smith on the bench for 80 mins & Hoskins has had no game time since coming back from injury.
He's playing with 1 striker through choice.