+1. As long as he starts regularly over the next couple of weeks/months there's no reason why he shouldn't be in the frame for LB. Davidson has looked a bit gash lately, albeit at the highest level.

Edited by playmaker11: 14/9/2014 04:00:44 PM

Oops, my eyes read Lokomotiv but my brain thought Torpedo. My bad.

Oar starting, Sarota on the bench.

I watched Sainsbury overnight, he had a cracker imo.

Franjic on the bench for the Torpedo Spartak game. Spartak's new stadium looks fucken awesome :shock: :shock: :shock: Franjic must be enjoying the atmosphere looks to be full house stadium.

Expecting to see Ivan come on in the second half.

Watching FC Utrecht. Never realised how much of their play goes through Oar compared to national side

Is he playing in the middle? Would explain why.

Looks like he floats in and out

I think it's just the limitations of international football. Oar, Leckie, Halloran, Kruse - in an ideal world we'd see them tested out all over the pitch, but I guess it's just too hard to get those systems in place.

International football is also a step up from the Eredivisie and Bundesliga 2.

they call it the rhombus, the shape shifts. he will play from the centre/right and float left with another guy on the left wing and they use numbers up the left.

he has said before that he does not feel effective when he is stuck out wide. he gets dangerous when he can float in and ange let him do it v the saudis and it was his best performance in some time.

next NT game. if he starts on the left expect the roo's to play a little narrower on the left and oar to be a little more involved. atm he is greatly underutilised under ange.

Brillante on the bench

Indeed! This was discussed by Oar and Ange post-Saudi game - or discussed subtlely, indirectly. Ange asked him to be 'more involved' whatever that meant (More on the ball, involved in play) and Oar duly sought to do so. This will hopefully manifest in Oar tactically approaching games in a way similar to Utrecht role, even if it's not entirely the same, but atleast giving him more freedom to roam or float inside - it may even be tactically beneficial for our side and it's effectiveness, breaking down inferior teams, if an Oar, say, switches positionally with Bresc during the game - allowing Oar to do more chasing down, relieving Bresc of that task and too drawing defenders out of position and getting Oar involved, getting markers off Bresc or away from the middle etc...

As I discussed before too, Oar can also drop deeper to receive and help build up transition, while Davidson overlaps? Davidson is handy on the overlap and he can do the running and pressing while Oar sits back a lil and delivers the passes through or deeper crosses?

Either one or the other or even both - that would atleast see Oar covering far more of the pitch and more involved in our play on-the-ball, somehow. And in switching with Bresc, there might be added benefits for Bresc aswell - if it can be worked out right? :-k

tommy oar the 6th highest rated player in the netherlands!

at the end of 2 seasons ago he was 7th highest so he is back at that form

he has a whopping 6 key passes per game the most in the league (incidentally wilkshire is 4th in that department)

That's good to hear.
I think people are way too harsh on Tommy sometimes and forget he is still only 22.
Hopefully he goes on to bigger and better things real soon.

Ryan doing well for Brugge at the moment, good game against Racing Genk.

No Brillante in the starting XI for Fiorentina against Genoa. Don't know if he's on the bench or not.

good to see brilliante made the bench

Ridiculous statement. Most national teams are not much above HAL standard, and many are lower. Obviously the top of international football is a high standard, but the top of club football will always be higher.

This myth of the 'international standard' is a load of shit that 2 seconds of thought puts to shame.
Nothing personal about the rant, just hoping to open a few eyes to reality.

if brilliante makes it off the bench he would have exceeded my expectations 2 weeks in a row

Are you sure Brillante is on the bench?

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/865793/Live/Italy-Serie-A-2014-2015-Fiorentina-Genoa

Great news, doing well to even be on the bench at this stage.

for some reason theyre showing napoli chievo on my tv.... the mind boggles

Maybe when we play Asian teams but not when we play Belgium, Chile, Netherlands, Spain. No need to get aggressive.

Vidosic starting v Zurich

they dont even need to switch.

if davidson pushes up on the wing he is comfortable. then you have oar and bresc in the middle feeding.

the second dm milligan/jedi can swing left to cover for davidson.

in essence you get

rb---------------cb------------cb
--------------------------jedi--------->>------millsy
---------------bresc--------------oar--<<<
leckie-----------------cahill--------------davidson/smith

using the fullback as an alternative to the dm pushing forward and essentially giving you 2 creative mids in the front 1/3 and potentially pulling their FB out of position if he tracks in on oar.

aquilani having an off game. fingers crossed for brilliante to get a few minutes

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i'd rather see bresc out of the team and a 4411 with leckie behind cahill. but that probably puts halloran on the wing
Although I did think Troisi did well in the wc.

so,
lb cb cb rb
troisi milligan jedi oar
leckie
cahill

Edited by scott21: 15/9/2014 12:25:06 AM

Vidosic just scored for FC Sion. Replay showed he was offside, but goal stands.

aquilani just cost them that goal - send him off!

Fiorentina have made two of their three subs, still no Brillante.