Pako leaving a blessing for Rafa?

[dww]

Thankfully I think Kuyt has been a revelation for the last half a dozen games on the right side. Whether hes there long term is another question but on form leave him to it at the moment until we have some players that offer natural width.

I think he has been a real boon there - basically I think that Kuyt and Gerrard have both been moved around as Rafa sought to find the best way to play within the ideas he wants to use as the backbone of the team. I think Kuyt at least as an option here for the long haul now - his work rate in my opinion pretty much guarantees it and he has scored some important goals of late too.

[Woobus]

Also we appeared to be looking for width (pennant) early on to strengthen a 4-4-2 (or 4-4-1-1) style of play ....... which up until Nov 07 was working well.

We all know rafa likes to get players with different qualities, he maybe only seen Pennant as a stop gap player until he managed to get the players needed for the new system.

[Skillz]

Off to bed now (midnight). Look forward to reading your comments, hopefully they will be on topic

[El Jefecito]

It was also obvious that our wide players were not up to the mark ( and are still not up to the mark) so 4-2-3-1, however we got there, lends itself perfectly at the moment to our squad.

Hopefully that's the issue we'll resolve in the summer.