Need to let the chains off now. I get it, defense first approach we were leaking to many goals but its just creating too many issues as we invite pressure all match long and don't score enough to justify it.
The link between attack and midfield just isn't there. Mourinho obviously doesn't want this, it's why he played 4 CMs yday, he wants Kane and son further up the pitch but the players aren't gelling to it.
In his head I think he imagines aurier and reguillon to be more wingers, and the 2 cbs and holding mids create a solid block but we are missing creativity terribly. Eriksen and Alli are the 2 that have created for us in the years. Kane being so far back is just killing me, he's not a cm, he's a striker and yday we almost had 5 CMs with son just always sitting out left. It's just a complete mess when it comes to the pitch.
Here's my 2 pence;
Toby and Dier CB, same 2 wing backs I just mentioned. Let Hjolberg sit in front of the defence and act as the single holding mid, the Makele role. The other 2 midfielders should be more advanced if that's what we're going to play. This isn't new to Jose he won champs league playing like this with inter Milan, he setup like this at Chelsea. It just baffles me why its always 4231 with sissoko and Hjolberg, it's overkill for me.
Ndombele is similar to dembele, he likes to drop the shoulder, keep the ball, so we need more creativity. Lo celso for me isn't it, good player but not that creative player I'm talking about. Alli is clearly out the door. We have nobody for me that fills the role properly the way Lampard or Sneijder did for Mourinho in the past. We miss eriksen massively, its obvious. Lucas seems to have a ceiling, as does Berg at the moment. Lamela can't be depended on. Bale never arrived.
The only thing I can think of doing is drop Kane behind Son or Son and Kane other way and Vinicius up front. Kane plays as a lone striker right now dropping so far back and hoping to pop it off to son on the left or get a foul, it's just all so predictable.
Lloris
Aurier
Toby
Dier
Regi
Hjolberg (holding cm)
Ndomblele (the one to advance)
Kane (as the 10)
Son (left)
Take your pick right side
Vinicius up front
It just puts more attacking thought into the team for me. Otherwise just put Kane and Vinicius up front together in a 442. I just can't see how with out quality of players in when we actually attack, we play so defensively. The midfield has completely broken away from attack and attached itself to the defense.