For many, the lack of goals was the biggest issue with the team last season. I am not someone to dispute stats and so on but I do think there are other things that need to be addressed in other to get to another level and it all starts and ends with one person aka the current manager.
But he/us have a very good “problem” at the moment and that is that we have a lot of attacking power. Beth, Stina, Russo, McCabe, Hurtig, Caldentey and Rossa. That’s a lot of players for very few positions and as much as it will be difficult to find the ideal trio or quarter and so on, the fact that we have these players at our disposal is pretty incredible.
This problem always reminds me of artists that have an incredible catalog of songs and they have a very hard time figuring out what their setlist should be. There is always a few that will miss out and fans always have an opinion.
The REAL problem is when you only have a couple of good songs and you have to figure out how to build a set around it so that it makes sense regarding the flow of the show… like you don’t wanna play your best 3 songs back to back to back because then what? Of course you’re fans are gonna know the B sides and deep cuts but the chances are that the casual audience will just check out, unless you perform those less good songs, really really well and you sell then damn thing.
In sports you can have something similar happen, when you have one or two star players and the rest of the team play for their strengths and so on and unlike a concert, this has a much more realistic chance of it being a good thing as we have seen time and time again. I find all of these parallels very fascinating.
The defense is getting up there with the attack as far as really good players in all positions and with Daphne now we have depth in the GK position as well. But like I’ve mentioned in the past few blogs, I still think we need another player in midfield if nothing else for rotation. And let me be clear, this also applies and should apply to the rest of the team.
What I’m looking out mostly for this season is lots and lots of rotation and as much as I love the idea of a best XI, I’m so down to seeing a lot of different XIs.
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