It worked when I went up front with Barn, I was able to drop back and help provide a link between midfield and attack. But in that game, we dominated through playing nice football and retained the ball well. By hoofing it constantly, that area of our game would go.
I do think we do better with 2 up front. Barn is a good striker, but I think he needs someone up there with him. Idealy this would be someone with pace eg Joel or Sweey. I think you work best as a centre mid, in the "Fellaini role".
That 4-2-2-2 formation (aka the formation that every Brazilian club team seems to use) works well. As did the one we used earlier in the day, which was a kind of narrow 4-3-1-2 formation.
Berry said:
I advise people give the 'drop in matches' a go if they haven't already. I got paired up with a few guys who seemed to be boosting: the opposition GK kept running out of his net allowing an empty net to score in. I ended up scoring 10 that game! :huh:
I played with a proper selfish cunt on 'drop in' yesterday. Literally didn't pass once. And typically with these types of players, he was fucking shit. Kept giving the ball away.
In other news, I can't seem to buy a goal at the moment. Started my career brightly scoring a few goals in the first few matches. I keep getting chances. Missed a glaring header last night that was easier to score than miss!