Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I might be going against the general consensus, but I'm quite glad Pellegrini is not reining in his attacking philosophy, but sticking to his preferred formation and playing two up front (wish it could be three).
Perhaps it's naive, but we shouldn't be worrying overmuch about other teams, but let them do the worrying about us. I always prefer a strong attack to a strong defence.
If, in doing this, we periodically 'come a cropper' then so be it; at least Pellegrini will have stood by his principles and continued to entertain people.
Anyway, these are just my own thoughts, for what they're worth.
I agree, sometimes pragmatism is called for but what I've seen suggested on here ie Fernando, Fernandinho and Yaya is nonsensical imo. If we play that way then Yaya occupies the space where Silva thrives, so we're effectively taking our best attacking player out of the game and shunting him wide, either that or you'll have Yaya and Silva tripping over each other.
Besides, moving Yaya forward stunts his ability to conduct things, he sets our pace being the conduit from defence to attack. It's ok later on in games when the play is stretched but playing him forward from the start nullifies his biggest asset which is dictating and controlling a game.
What people are calling for is more or less what Mancini did in the FA Cup winning season, just replace De Jong and Barry with the two Ferns.
