redshade » Mon May 02, 2016 11:43 pm wrote:If we do play Benteke, as some have suggested, where will the service come from? Milner is our only player who can whip in a decent ball at times. The others can't cross accurately.
Personally i would like to see this attack.
Milner lucas
Lallana Firminho Coutinho
Sturridge
Should be enough attacking flair. If it don't work then possibly plan B benteke 2nd half.
Don't forget though mate that this mob have drawn against Barcelona and Atletico and beaten Real Madrid so they have faced down the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez, Neymar, Benzema etc and come away with a result and the fact they have the second best defensive record in La Liga suggests that they are more than comfortable facing teams who try to play through them.
As impressive as that front 4 of ours that you've posted is, they have faced much better and held out.
It was the ariel route which saw off Dortmund in the end (our last 2 goals were headers scored by our CB's) and I've got a feeling that to really get these flapping at the back we might have to adopt the same approach again.
I'm not talking about ale house footy where we just boot the ball up the pitch, I'm talking about playing good footy but having a physical presence in the box, just like the last 20 minutes against Dortmund.
The great thing about Benteke is that the crosses don't have to be great, a simple looping lob will do, he might not be able to score off a lob but he can knock it down into the danger area for chaos to ensue.
A fired up crowd + plenty of crosses + Benteke is the way to rattle Villarreals solid defence IMO. As Damjan said a good old fashioned high tempo English style performance.