thats a very good and enlightened question Puchi.... so well done for rising above the usual forment..... why indeed do our normally goalscoring strikers struggle this season ??
heres the answer:-
when Vaart plays, he usuallly drifts far too far into midfield, sometimes on in line with the CBs even, it happens all the time... when that happens it isolates the true striker upfront with 2 CBs to battle, while Vaart is snailing along in midfield to little effect....
when Vaart does score, its cos the true striker has drawn both CBs away and left Vaart with tap-ins or similar when he arrives late in the box..... this is great for Vaart, but the rest of the team has to work very hard to create those SPECIFIC types of chances to score from, rather than use a variety of options, any of which will suit better for a number of chances we could create of more quality and frequency.... its like trying to finish a game of darts with a bulleye hit
always, rather than go for easier 'doubles'....
our strikers (and team) are better off without Vaart in the mid-long-term, yesterday proved it to me.... even with very limited appearances the Defoe-Pav pairing in a 4-4-2 proper produced more chances than an average game using Vaart with a striker..... the fact that we didnt actually score more is mainly irrrelevant, as that was hugely down to luck on Blackpool's side...... we created about 12 clear-cut chances (a fantastic return for an away game)...
again.... I write this to amuse myself, cos I know you are all blind to anything beyond the totally obvious.... in fact, you'd make great tabloid journalists methinks.
PS - 1-0 Squillaci...... Stoke really MUST learn how to defend high balls against those setpiece specialists Ars*nal
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