The Mikel azeez onazi combination

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The Mikel azeez onazi combination

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As individuals each of these guys looked comfortable on the ball and had their moments; as a collective they had no spark
it appeared to me the spine of our team was set up like this
............Onazi
............Mikel
............Azeez
............Ameobi

why? this is weird. This plays Onazi and Azeez out of position and does not leverage their respective strengths namely their box to box qualities. Also it left our back four under-protected and gave the americans freedom to access the "hole" between midfield and attack.
Against a team with a deadly trequartista this could be fatal.

Keshi did something similar at the confed cup with Ogude playing the onazi role and Ogu playing the Azeez role. Again, weird. But at least then it made more sense as Ogude is a PURE DM whereas Onazi isn't

Keshi why not keep it simple. Accept you have no creative central midfielders besides Mikel and play him at the peak of our midfield triangle

.......Onazi....Azeez
.............Mikel

Also for the love of God restrict Ameobi and Yobo's involvement to 2 minute cameos at the end of the game from now on
Where is Okpalla when you need him

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