danvilla2
I’m not an expert
It's blazingly obvious to me what the issue is and its an issue we have had since last season. The lack of dynamism in the central midfield has been exposed time and again . We never drive or create through the middle. There is no guile, creativity. It is either get the ball out wide or nothing and if teams nullify that then we are easy to play against . How many times tonight did we get it wide only to check back inside and go backwards. Grealish is the closest we have and he is not a central midfielder so no point expecting him to do it. The gap between central midfield and the forwards is ridiculous. If the ball goes in the opposite box then out again our central midfield may catch up and grab the ball but they are never in the box on the first phase.
For this I blame Bruce fair and square.
I logged in to say pretty much the same thing. Grealish is a very good championship player but unless the other players can put enough of a shift in to allow him to get further up the pitch Grabban will remain isolated. I actually forgot Lansbury was on the pitch, Hourihane isn’t a million times better but pops up with goals. Lansbury scored one good goal against us and we paid a few million for him whilst Forest fans weren’t that bothered about seeing him go.
Grabban has a great touch and looks like an all round centre forward but we just aren’t using him as effectively as we should be.