Yeah, I wonder why!
Strange to see him and Bellamy on the pitch at the same time and both being played out of position!
That riddles the hell out of me!
i will try and explain why;
the days of old fashioned 'whip it in' wingers on both flanks have pretty much gone, we now have inverted wingers where they cut in onto their stronger foot. The advantage being that the right back will bomb on to give the width - with Johnson there it works really well and often creates an overload on the opposing fullback. The whole idea is that the wide player can shoot on his strongest foot or the fullback can cross, two options rather than one.
Againts Everton at home this worked a treat and several times Kelly was allowed loads of space to run into as the 'winger' in this case Henderson moved inside. Also to combat this teams push forward allowing more space in the centre - in theory crossing from slightly further back should allow more curle and therefore benefit on rushing players to attack the ball(Carroll etc). with the defenders having to turn they then face their own goal and risk oggies or defend blind.
our problem is that far too often we move the ball too slowly which allows players to drop and defend easily or nobody makes those runs in behind.
