First, this formation played more like a lopsided 3-5-2 than last week’s 3-4-2-1. It helped Moting a lot to essentially cut the field in half for him. He was so slick on the ball, clean first touch, great field vision, a real facilitator-from-the-front with good link up play #RBNY
The formation leaned heavily to the left side. Forsberg was a lone 10 sort of, but played almost exclusively to the left side. Before Harper went off this gave him room to operate, and he isolated several defenders out there. He was great before the injury #RBNY
The one player that wasn’t great tho was Stroud. I just couldn’t understand his game. I couldn’t see it on TV last week so I can’t confirm it was the same, but he and Edelman do not complement each other at all. It’s a positional problem, and it’s 90% on Stroud from what I saw tonight #RBNY
The main issue was that they don’t effectively shuttle vertically. Unless he is directly marking someone Stroud is almost never behind Edelman. He doesn’t drop in when Edelman pushes over or up. And they don’t seem to rotate well either. They’re very attached to their sides…sort of #RBNY
There were plays where Stroud was running over into the left channels to snuff out a play, and he was literal feet from Danny. Danny didn’t split and cover right. Stroud would crash the left, then run back to the right when it was over. Edelman rarely did the same #RBNY
It was really highlighted when Carballo came on b/c he and Edelman DO shuttle and rotate effectively. Edelman was really good all night, both with and against the ball I thought. But he was better after Carballo came on AND we got more from the right CM #RBNY
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