Hazard was arguably the best player in the league in the first half of the season. Morata with his five league goals and eight in all competition this season was guilty of missing several scoring chances.
In other to fix the problem temporarily before we get an 'upgraded' striker in Higuan (whose record this season is terrible). We moved Hazard to False 9 and let Willian and Pedro whose good forms this season have been either of them coming as substitute for one.
In doing this:
1. Our best and most creative player is now a shadow of himself
2. This season Willian is now responsible for goal scoring chances and you know exactly how that will pawn out.
Mourinho on Bein Sports today says we are the easiest to study among the top 6 teams because teams know exactly how we play.
I rather we play with a striker that miss chances than having to pass sideways for 90mins.
Is Morata's fault?
posted on 19/1/19
Giroud
posted on 19/1/19
Sarris inability to manage Giroud into this team and prefer to stick to Morata is a problem.
We need a striker yet Giroud gets mugged off and he'd rather play one of the best, hell TWO of the best players out of their main positions than play Giroud.
Is Giroud that fooking bad!?
posted on 20/1/19
No, it's ultimately the managers fault for persisting with this.
I don't blame him for trying, although I knew it would never work but he's had ample time to realise that the experiment is a failure and to abandon it.
For me the main fault lies with the fact that we knew Giroud and Morata were not up to it from last season, yet we STILL persisted with them this season and loaned Abraham out!
posted on 20/1/19
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 10 hours, 9 minutes ago
No, it's ultimately the managers fault for persisting with this.
I don't blame him for trying, although I knew it would never work but he's had ample time to realise that the experiment is a failure and to abandon it.
For me the main fault lies with the fact that we knew Giroud and Morata were not up to it from last season, yet we STILL persisted with them this season and loaned Abraham out!
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Abraham isn't the answer IMO and would have offered as much as Giroud and Morata have but I agree with you that he should have got a striker in the summer and I was saying it all bleeding summer aswel that we NEED a striker.. everyone knew we did and actually that's one of the reasons I have never warmed to Sarri because he made a mistake straight away trusting these ldlots because he wanted to assess the squad.
W@nker
posted on 20/1/19
Abraham differs from those two in that he actually gets in the box.
He's not the best technically gifted player you'll ever see but he gets his goals from getting into the right positions - mainly the six yard box.