Option 4... RDZ and the club recognise this is an area for improvement, and would love to get a Pervis style right back in, but all the while you have Lamptey/Veltman/Milner/Gross who can play there it remains a low priority as another player there would start to bloat the squad. Maybe it Lamptey moved on we would make moves for someone, but possibly there hasnt been much interest in him?
Yeah, obviously this. We have a perfectly good RB in Veltman, and a good, albeit oft-injured right wingback in Lamptey. But RDZ has continuously and persistently used midfielders there - Gross / Caicedo / Milner - which is a clear demonstration that that is the kind of player that he wants in his system.
That would explain his indifference to the position. Not going to lie I am still concerned about how vulnerable we can look on the right, but given the quality of football we are enjoying we'll have to continue to ride that rollercoaster.
Well this is what we've seen on the pitch yes. But I wonder where the causal relationship is here. If he had a marauding right back, "good on the ball and getting up and down making tackles and crosses" type player would he continue to use Milner at right back? I'm less sure than you.
Having a Pervis-style right back would make us far more dynamic and harder to defend against/predict. At the moment everything comes down the left-hand side, it is our main threat. If a team nullifies this threat our options are significantly reduced. If we also had a Pervis on the right, then our attacking options skyrocket. When the RB goes, Pervis stays back, and visa-versa.
This is a really good point and probably the best interpretation of how we set up in this thread.
I cannot understand why Veltman is not being selected unless he’s still carrying an injury
I will be really suprised if Joel doesn't play on Saturday.
Someone has already mentioned it a few posts up. RDZ doesn't want to play with a conventional right back. So we don't really need many of them.
Just because we only play one traditional full back at any given time doesn’t mean we wouldn’t benefit by having the option to switch that play between the left and right side. Always playing down the left with Pervis is predictable.
Although that’s not correct I think it was against Liverpool last season Lamptey played and we were superb. When Lamptey is ready he will play.
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And yet time and time again we were caught out on Saturday with only two men at the back as both full backs were further forward and wide like with Sassuolo and Shakhtar, the RB was not conservative and covering in the middle.He's always played with a back 4 as far as I know.
If you read about his Sassuolo and Shakhtar teams, the style seems very similar to how we play. One potential difference is that both fullbacks used to get forward. Perhaps, a more conservative defender on one side is him trying to be less open at the back.
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Or we have someone with the unusual taelnt of a Caicedo who could be part of the pivot and still be able to tackle back to cover for the high-pressing full backs.
We frequently attack down the right, we just attack differently down the right, less direct and more triangles compared to the left. But if a team focuses on defending the left we will certainly hurt them from the right.
If you have a look at their heat maps from Saturday, they are both high and wide. In fact, Pervis came centrally more than Milner. In the previous two games, Milner also stayed wide with Pervis tucking in slightly more than Milner but again, generally both staying wide. The system RDZ wants to play is crying out for another Pervis on the right IMO and a Caicedo type, more physical/defensive minded and energetic CM to drop in which we hopefully have now in Baleba.
