by URZZZZ »
14 Feb 2021 01:21
Notts Royal Zip windermereROYAL Relying too much on Joao for goals now, playing every game appears to be losing his edge, badly in need of a rest, we need Meite and Puscas back soon to help with the heavy lifting.
Yep this is a problem. We don’t have any heavy scoring midfielders so without Yaks and Puscas it’s all on Joao. We have a great opportunity to get back to winning ways on Tuesday night. It would be good to see Puscas on the bench. He can’t be far away by now.
I’d love to see Puscas come back and be on fire. I do think the fanbase view Joao as a much better player than Puscas when they have completely different attributes. Even better would be to see them firing together but our midfield is too strong to enable us to play 2 up top
Could be an option if we were to develop a 4-2-2-2 sort of style with Joao dropping deep behind Puscas (especially with Swift and Meite out)
However, in the rare times we did see that partnership last season, bar Cardiff (H), it didn’t really work out, real lack of understanding between the pair. Puscas looked a lot better next to Baldock than he did Meite/Joao
Given it hasn’t been tried for a while and it’s a new manager this season, could be worth a go if results don’t pick up soon but no need for knee jerk reactions straight away, it’s a real chance for Semedo/Aluko to perform in these next few weeks, against what you’d argue, favourable opposition
Although Semedo has been decent these past few games, don’t think he’s the best player we’ll have and I’m still not entirely sure what he offers but as others have alluded to, he’s not as bad as people make out he is