The biggest problem with this team is the central midfield. We knew it would be in the summer though. To use and old Tony Mowbrayism, we have too many soldiors and not enough artists.
The lack of ball playing midfielders mean that when we are in front, we are unable to control the midfield (and therefore the game) and when we are level, we dont have enough ways to break a team down. All of the burden is on the wide players.
It was obvious for all to see that we lacked a creative central player this summer but the club did nothing to remedy it. Corberan also seems happy to operate with wide players in the number 10 spot (Diangana, Johnston, Wallace), suggesting he doesnt put much weight in having a "foot on the ball" type player and instead being happy with what becomes a hybrid of 442 on the counter.
Corberan is the perfect manager to keep a side like us in the top flight, but without a good creative central midfielder, it feels unlikely that we will ever get there.
Whilst creativity from central midfield is important if we play what is in effect a front 4 the thing we lack most from any 2 of mowatt,molumby and Racic is athleticism and pace
I haven’t seen enough of diakite to see his strengths and weaknesses but he is hardly creative
The fact we don’t really have any box to box athletic midfielders means we get so slowly forward and no one is there to draw players away leaving our wide men with 2 to beat most of the time
Central midfield is the one area we should be strengthening but not with like for like we lack legs in there
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