I see a lot of videos on instagram where we practice a load of text book routines, you know the sort, one-two, get it to the man wide, whips it in, Ollie tucks it away... not a defender in sight or someone trying to stop the ball except the goalie.
But they are so distant from the reality of how the game actually pans out that they are just a waste of time, if we can’t get into those positions.
We play some wonderful football at the back, I’ve never seen such a technically strong back 5. But we lack the next part to our game without jack, we desperately needed to find a better balance of attack down the right wing, yet in my opinion after a fair amount of game time, we haven’t got what we needed in Bert. Perhaps he’ll come good, but having one outlet isn’t good enough and you deserve to struggle in the form table if you are so reliant on one player.