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We've had far too many wingers in recent years with no end product. A far cry from when we had Eyresey putting in a quality ball on a regular basis

 

Agreed, consistently performing wingers are like gold dust at this level and, more often than not, they are a liability defensively.

 

I don't mind us playing two wide players but I think it works best when you have one who is almost a central midfielder that is good positionally and helps the full back, and one who gets forward a lot to help the attackers and pretty much plays like an attacker. Pretty much what Winchester and Forte did earlier in the season.

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Do wingers even exist in the modern game? I'm not talking players who play out wide in a front 3 but actual wide men in a 4 man midfield who get to the byline and cross etc.

 

The current style is largely through the middle either on the floor or in the air. I can't really think of any traditional touchline-hugging winger at any level.

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When a club lime United with their sot of history play two wingers at full back i's fair to say that the modern game has moved on from traditional wingers; not necessarily for the best.

 

 

Perhaps a result of greater mobility in central defenders.

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Too much emphasis on keeping the ball has stifled attacking play at our level of the game. The tikka-takka method works at the highest level, but when you think of the teams who have gained promotion at our level in recent years I think only Swansea have played a passing gamel. Most of the successful sides tend gamble more in the final third and as a result end up grinding out results by being more clinical than the rest of the sides in the Division. The amount of times we've lost to a team at the top and heard a fellow fan say something along the lines of "they were nothing special". But the reality they didn't need to be, they have just taken their chances in a game where we haven't. Preston away last season being the prime example, we kept the ball well but how often did we trouble their keeper?

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