WE have just lost one of the best box to box midfielders in the world and we have replaced him with a 21 year old with a hand ful of games in the prem. I agree Amarty may well develop into a good defensive midfielder... but he shouldn't be the butt of our frustration. I guess we need to understand that with the available players we have then 442 is too tough for us - we are just not meeting the challenges in mid field and hence the consequences. I believe we must persist with amarty (who else do we have at the moment?) but we should change our system to play five in middle (either one holding.... then three.... and then okizaki; or maybe two and three like Man u did against us).
WE should recognize that we need to reorganize - as we do not have the personnel to make 442 work. WE beak up omore play with Okizaki on the pitch. While I like hernandez,... last season, Simpson made a lot of saving tackles when huth and wes were exposed.
Besides reorganizing mid filed, including shinji and simpson we must also sort the corners out! If we do these things we will improve... maybe not to where we want to be.... but we can only fix the things that we are able to fix... we haven't ' got a new kante.
If we are doing the right things then I won't moan