New Years Day at the Valley promises to be a heartening experience and could set us up for a great 2008.
Colchester United are the visitors and they will arrive with the least confidence of anyone this season. They are bottom of the division. They have managed just one victory in the last 14 games and none in the last six. On Saturday, 17th placed Blackpool beat them 2-0 at Layer Road and by all accounts it was their worst display of the season and they were lucky the margin wasn't bigger. Their keeper Dean Gerken played a blinder.
So then, it looks clear to me - all we have to do is put out an attacking formation and get at them. Thomas and Sam must be told to take their full-backs on and run into space every time they get the ball. The full-backs must also get forward and support. We have to open them up and create chances because a goal is probably all it will take for their heads to go down. We need some urgency and we must create prolonged spells of pressure.
We need to play 4-4-2. I would start with the same back four (Moutaouakil, McCarty, Fortune and Powell) with Holland and Semedo in front of them in the centre. Thomas and Sam on the flanks with Iwelumo and Varney up front. Chris Dickson has to start as substitute and I would let Varney know that he has 45 minutes to help us get in front or Dickson starts the second half.
Assuming things go to plan, I really think we need to press on in this game and try and rack up some goals. There is no excuse for slowing down at 2-0 or using the occasion to give players a breather by bring on substitues, unless they go on with the instructions to continue to press forward.
Anything less than a victory will be unacceptable if we are to continue to challenge for automatic pomotion.
Come on Charl-ton!
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