No, what I was doing was highlighting that you need to set up the tactics to suit a player if they aren’t mobile. Bayo is just a very good example of it.
If we lumped it to him expecting him to run the channels, he too would have been shit and wouldn’t have been (one of) our greatest players in the EFL.
I think you’re way off the mark here. Bayo was so outrageously good in the air that we could place players near to him from goal kicks. Fink has lost 5 out of 6 aerial duels and has also lost every ground duel. He’s also misplaced over half of his passes. He’s totally ineffective
Bayo would have been shit if we expected him to run the channels.
if the tactics don’t fit the players, the best aren’t going to look good.
Look, the elephant in this room is we don’t actually know what Finks strengths are. But the way he was isolated and the way the balls where just kicked to him, that’s clearly not going to help anyone.
The lack of passing quality in that first half killed anyone’s chance of looks good.