Reading Will Buckleys recent interview with BBC Sussex it is good to see that The Seagulls inability to win away in the last four league games has not gone unnoticed. In previous seasons a draw away from home would have been more than enough to send hundreds of smiley faces back down to the south coast. However, this season is different. With the prize of Premier League football next year looming, we need more. We need three points, one is not enough anymore.
“I think the gaffer [Gus Poyet] has been looking at that and will probably try and change things in our approach to games.” Buckley continued his interview stating that the team were no longer “going into games to try and nick a draw.” The big question though, what change in approach will take place? I hope a change in formation, 4-4-2, we need two strikers.
It’s really refreshing to see players thinking the same way as yourself, unfortunately it doesn’t seem the man in charge shares our opinion Will! I hate to dig up the past, but many of Gus’s tactical decisions in our last away game at Forest really didn’t reflect the need to pick up three points. The substitution of Lua Lua, arguably our most attacking threat that day, for Sparrow is still a decision that baffles me and most certainly one that reduced our chances of bagging a goal and three points that day. Ironically minutes after this sub, we got our goal, a scrappy goal but a goal none the less. Now, is there something I am not seeing? Or is Gus just incredibly lucky?
The man to score at Forest was Vokes; the striker unlucky enough to pull the short straw in the changing rooms that week and therefore forced to play upfront alone. Just to clarify, I am a firm believer of Gus’s football philosophy however the formation, not so much. Too often does the striker (in this case, Vokes) get outnumbered by the opposition defenders and therefore slated by on looking Albion fans. The answer is clear – we need two upfront, preferably Vokes and CMS. I may be being old fashioned but I am not the only one. There has been growing support for the CMS and Vokes bandwagon and it is slowly starting to gain momentum.
We were treated with a small glimpse of the two on the same pitch at the Amex on Saturday, please Gus let’s see some more. In the famous words of Mike Bassett let’s play ‘Four–Four-F*****g Two’ at Burnley. I can promise you Gus, if we do, you will be celebrating after watching Vokes flick a header on for CMS to bag the winner and three more vital points for The Albion. Failing that I will be completely wrong and consume a large amount of humble pie in next week’s blog. My Football Manager 2012 experience VS Gus’s years of experience of top flight football. There can only be one winner. Please Gus, let’s go for it!
In Gus we trust.
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