Formation

[SonicWill 869]

Whilst Colak's goal scoring form is making him basically undroppable, it's clear that a fully-fit and firing Morelos offers us more in terms of his all-round game.

With Morelos hopefully getting back to his best, is there a chance that Gio looks at playing them together?

Either a 3-5-2 or a 3-4-3. Something like:

               McGregor

      Goldson Sands Davies

Tav                                      Borna

         Lundstram Tilman

                    Kent

          Morelos Colak

 

It'd allow Kent to float about as a free man, Borna and Tav to get forward and all three of our centre halves are players who have the ability to step out of the backline with the ball at their feet. 

 

[MasterD 7,446]

No there's no chance.

[Dickie 12,905]

1 minute ago, SonicWill said:

Whilst Colak's goal scoring form is making him basically undroppable, it's clear that a fully-fit and firing Morelos offers us more in terms of his all-round game.

With Morelos hopefully getting back to his best, is there a chance that Gio looks at playing them together?

Either a 3-5-2 or a 3-4-3. Something like:

               McGregor

      Goldson Sands Davies

Tav                                      Borna

         Lundstram Tilman

                    Kent

          Morelos Colak

 

It'd allow Kent to float about as a free man, Borna and Tav to get forward and all three of our centre halves are players who have the ability to step out of the backline with the ball at their feet. 

 

Midfield would be over run and gio ain’t playing 2 up front ever.

[scotty1976 1,673]

I wonder if it would be worth playing Alfredo behind Colak in more of a 10 role?

[Ayrshire Blue 2,053]

9 minutes ago, SonicWill said:

Whilst Colak's goal scoring form is making him basically undroppable, it's clear that a fully-fit and firing Morelos offers us more in terms of his all-round game.

With Morelos hopefully getting back to his best, is there a chance that Gio looks at playing them together?

Either a 3-5-2 or a 3-4-3. Something like:

               McGregor

      Goldson Sands Davies

Tav                                      Borna

         Lundstram Tilman

                    Kent

          Morelos Colak

 

It'd allow Kent to float about as a free man, Borna and Tav to get forward and all three of our centre halves are players who have the ability to step out of the backline with the ball at their feet. 

 

While I don’t think GVB would play 2 strikers as such for a full 90 minutes, I’d like to see Morelos & Colak at some point together, maybe taking Kent out when he’s having a crap game.

[SonicWill 869]

5 minutes ago, Dickie said:

Midfield would be over run and gio ain’t playing 2 up front ever.

You could replace Tillman with a more "disciplined" player like Jack/Kamara/Arfield/Davies. Kent can also drop in when we're out of possession making it a midfield three with Morelos dropping back a line, leaving Colak on the CB's shoulder.

I don't necessarily expect it to happen but it seems mad not to at least look at ways to get our two most potent attacking weapons into the team, especially when we're far better than the majority of the teams we play and will often be up against teams that sit in.

[shotstopper 770]

3 minutes ago, scotty1976 said:

I wonder if it would be worth playing Alfredo behind Colak in more of a 10 role?

Need to try something like this. Morelos is a workhorse as seen in the past, giving an outball on many an occassion.

Would also give a double headed attack which teams up here would shit themselves.

Puts a lot on Morelos but he has the ability when arsed.

[Guest]

Unfortunately we don’t have the midfielders or defensive discipline to play that way

[2nd Flute 14,036]

You can talk formations all day, but Colak is first choice striker all day long. 

[McEwan's Lager 30,882]

There's no need to play a 3 CBs in Scotland. Just a waste of a player and it would make us more defensive.

[KeyserSoze 14,704]

How many times do people need telling. Ffs

[BookWorm 4,271]

I like that formation with Kent in a free floating role behind the front men. Could yield positive results I think 

[stuart1994 4,421]

Colak gets more stick than he’s due for his play outside the box. 

[scottyc06 6,927]

Pointless discussion, the only change in formation Gio has ever done is to drop a midfielder back! That’s not just at Rangers either!

[DrLaudrup 4,853]

The problem isn’t so much the formation but the personnel and style. We too often play with multiple defensive midfielders which I don’t think we need I against most Scottish sides. Also when we do that we tend to move the ball too slowly. It doesn’t matter who we play, when we move the ball quickly teams struggle to cope with us. 

[graeme_4 35,329]

10 minutes ago, stuart1994 said:

Colak gets more stick than he’s due for his play outside the box. 

His pass outside in the lead up to his first was a cracker. 

[SeparateEntityMyArse 54,319]

Colak Morelos ain't happening.

If it did, Tillman is the player to play behind.

But it's simply a non starter under Gio 

[Drunk and disorderly. 14,734]

Having two strikers up front would weaken our midfield,who wouldn't be able to cover for our often dodgy defence.

2 up front is a no for most managers and a no from me. We don't have the quality imo. 

[five stars 1,739]

We need 2 quality centre forwards. 

Pick the one that best suits any individual game.

The other can come on as a sub later.

 

[STEPPS BOY 75,116]

We don’t have enough goals in squad to justify leaving Morelos or Colak on bench.

up to the manager to find a formation that can fit both.

[rossco87 708]

Might be an absolute mental shout but I would try Morelos coming in off the right of the three.
 

I’m pretty sure he started his career in that kind of role and would give the opposition defence a real headache in who is picking him up when he drifts inside and also another out all to hit. Colak seemed to be dropping much deeper today to link play up which would let Morelos drift in centrally and free up space for Tav to attack if the LB tracks Morelos’ run.

 

I wouldn’t be asking him to spend the whole game out there but early in his time with us he created / scored a fair few when he drifted out to the right and then took his man on.

[Johnnyem 238]

No chance, besides what do you think we will gain? Do you think that two strikers will mean double the amount of goals we will score? It doesn't work that way and with one less midfielder there will be less chances being produced. Gio will never buy into that.

[slimjim1690 4,534]

I'm sure some of the above mentioned formations will have been tried in practice and for whatever reason has been deemed unsuitable.

[delranger 39]

2 hours ago, rossco87 said:

Might be an absolute mental shout but I would try Morelos coming in off the right of the three.
 

I’m pretty sure he started his career in that kind of role and would give the opposition defence a real headache in who is picking him up when he drifts inside and also another out all to hit. Colak seemed to be dropping much deeper today to link play up which would let Morelos drift in centrally and free up space for Tav to attack if the LB tracks Morelos’ run.

 

I wouldn’t be asking him to spend the whole game out there but early in his time with us he created / scored a fair few when he drifted out to the right and then took his man on.

I think this is definitely worth a try. Morelos coming in off the right would give us far more of a threat than anyone else we have tried in that position over the past few years. 

[GOAT 30,449]

Need to find a way to make it happen 100%.  Colak is lethal and Morelos just causes problems.