Re: Team against Watford - time to score our first away goal?
Merlion96
14 October, 2017 00:46
Arsenal come to Vicarage Road this Saturday evening and while they are not as good as City, they still have brilliant individuals and are capable of running away with games when they turn it on. So will Silva compromise on Saturday, go back in the other direction and try to sneak a point? No he will not.
Speaking at his press conference on Thursday afternoon, Silva gave an impassioned defence of his risky approach and said that he would never change, no matter the opponent, no matter the game.
βIf you like to play to win, if you have one clear idea for the players, I cannot change this idea in one week because I will play against Arsenal, or I will play against Chelsea or City,β Silva said. βYou can change sometimes the strategy for the match. You can play in different systems like we did against Swansea: we played 4-3-3 and then with five at the back. What we can change is our strategy for the match, in some moments our formation as well. We can change many, many things. But our idea, our style of play, is impossible to change.β
Silva said it would be a betrayal of everything he stands for as a manager, and his whole career, to change now. He took Estoril from the Portuguese second tier and the brink of bankruptcy all the way into the Europa League β an unprecedented rise β with this style of football. It won him the Portuguese cup with Sporting CP, the Greek league with Olympiakos, and it nearly saved Hull City from relegation last season too.
[
www.independent.co.uk]
Great.
If only our attacking midfielders can find passing channels and split open Watford defence with accurate through balls ...
I doubt Silva will play such an open attacking game and will most likely deploy 3-4-2-1 to soak up pressure and then counter-attack us with 3-5-2 to exploit acres of space left behind in our half by an ill-discipline Ramsey and poorly positional play of Xhaka playing just in front of our high-pressing Backline-3 with both our wingbacks stranded high up the pitch.