17-01-2021, 16:38
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Re: Gills match thread
The main problem for our team shape yesterday was getting the right balance across the midfield four but also fitting the right players into those roles. I would say that we have our best goalkeeper now playing well in Baxter. The back three is sound with, from the left, Burgess...Hughes and either Nottingham or Sykes. Conneely is a successful fixture in the deep midfield role. Bearing in mind that I don’t think that Wing Back is the correct role for Sykes and with the current crop of injuries to our midfield players and yesterday having to make that early change for Butcher, I would have started or moved Sykes to/at Right Back and Nottingham at Right Centre Midfield. Pritchard and McConville are much too similar to each other to play them adjacent to each other so I would have brought on Uwakwe for Butcher and played him wide on one wing and McConville on the other but with the freedom to swap wings freely. Pritchard’s role in this arrangement would be for him to cover as much ground as possible being creative in a free roaming way whereas Nottingham could have stayed more pivotal in the central role that Butcher has been playing so well recently. Bishop and Charles paired up front is an obvious choice too. Gary Robert’s as first choice sub is versatile and experienced enough to replace all but the three at the back plus Conneely.
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