When asked about Buluts team's style of play and exactly wha

When asked about Buluts team's style of play and exactly what it is he is trying to implement, Bulut entered a six-minute explanation in an attempt to furnish fans with a better idea of what the plan of attack, literally, actually is.


EROL BULUT:


"I am preferring the system of 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3. But when we are building up, we make a back three, sometimes it is with a number six or with a full-back, depending on the opponent," he said.

"We want to use the wingers to create chances down the side, because the centre is always a close place. So it's difficult to go through the centre sometimes. So you have to use the half space on the wings to create a two against one or a three against two in behind he defence to create chances.

"Sometimes we want to use the strikers or wingers in behind, but you have to see what type of players you have to go in behind. In this we have KG (Karlan Grant) like this, Josh Bowler likes the ball at his feet to go one against one. Kion (Etete) likes to make the runs, but also he asks to have the ball short.

"But mostly, it's to use the sides and come with crosses in behind the defence."


When it was put to him that his wingers, typically a right-footer on the left and a left-footer on the right, tend to favour cutting inside to heavily congested traffic, thus leaving the only option as shooting from distance, he replied: "Who is coming then when the wingers come inside? The full-backs are coming to overlap and hit crosses, so we have more players then inside the box.

"Let's say our left-back is overlapping the winger, you have the winger inside, the striker inside, the opposite winger inside and plus the number 10, so we have four players minimum inside the box. You should have.

"Then we can go to the other point. If you transfer the ball in front, you have to try to keep it also. If we lose the ball too quickly up front, sometimes we try to go too quickly up front and make individual movements and we lose it, because the midfield and full-back cannot support. So we have to keep the ball with the wingers and the striker in front, so we can go to a set play. This is a small issue we have. This is why we don't have so many players in the box."

It's probably fair to say that Jamilu Collins, who has had to be run into the ground this season following an entire year out with an ACL injury, is not bombing on past his winger enough to really trouble the opposition, as he has done in the past. Perry Ng, arguably Cardiff's best player this season, is not that marauding-type right-back, either, so creating that width has been a struggle, it seems.


The Bluebirds rank 20th for the number of attempted crosses they've put into the penalty area this season. They are also in the bottom half (14th) for the number of crosses attempted into the penalty area not included set pieces. So if that is their main attacking weapon, it's not being utilised nearly consistently enough to score goals.

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I get the theory of what he wants to do, but the reality is somewhat different

He is just petrified of losing the ball and going behind as the world knows we have so little threat going forward it’s game over.

It's more like 6-2-1-1 the way the wingers sit back .

What a crock of shite

Our full backs hardly ever get in a position to cross the ball into the box and if they did we certainly wouldn’t have 4 players in the box we would have 1 maybe 2

I am starting to think that Bulut is just a piss poor manager because his players are certainly not following his instructions and he doesn’t seem to be able to get them to change

He’s also managed to turn our wingers into full backs and our central midfielders are increasingly incapable of passing forward and get a nose bleed if they cross the halfway line

So Bulut says above:

"But mostly, it's to use the sides and come with crosses in behind the defence."

The above is not happening and that's obvious because of where we are ranked in crosses and goals in this division.

We've clearly been sussed out because the system stopped working from November-ish onwards. Ok, its partly because we don't have a goalscoring centre forward.

It's so frustrating - why can't he put Bowler on his natural side as then, you never know, he might get to the byline and cut back a dangerous cross!
Why the inverted wingers all the time? Our fullbacks clearly don't, won't, can't overlap in this current set up. He has attempted to play 2 strikers once - that's not enough, do it again, give it a chance.

Loosen the bl00dy defensive straitjacket Erol FFS! Stop overcomplicating it and listening to your 'analysts' - the word 'anal' is included for a reason!

Sounds great in principle. In practice we haven’t got the players to do that. HE NEEDS TO ADAPT! Sadly I don’t think he’s got it in him to do so

As an example, what's stopping him from playing any two 'strikers' at home, such as: Etete & Grant, Etete & Ashford, Meite & Grant (substitute Etete/ Meite with the new ex-Wurzels fella if preferred).

Give the front two some ammo as we have enough wingers as long as they're used as wingers hugging the touchline.

Unfortunately, as a few have already surmised, it appears Bulut would prefer not to concede goals rather than win matches - oh dear.

Overlapping wingbacks... No pace in our fullbacks, better off playing Esbrand and Grant as Wing backs with Bowler and Tanner in front of them... Risky but if this is the style then you need to add the pace

Einstein

I like that but Erol would have kittens. That's the kind of tactic Kevin Keegan would've used back in the day!

A simple game over complicated by a shite manager..

This style is not a surprised, this was stated before he joined us. Defense first snatch a goal.

We're mid table let's go for it.

Managers in a dream world, you’d be lucky to see this team cross the ball 3/4 times in 90min. And let’s be honest putting Etete in the middle is hardly the answer to hitting the back of the net the guy is absolute crap at this level.
What kind of manger thinks when their behind with 25mins left bringing on Wintle and Etete is being positive.

Definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Let's go for it tomorrow.

Hovarth

Grant Philips Goutas Esbrand

Bowler Colwill Turnbull Tanner

Ashford Diédhiou

I like the system, on paper. Similar formations and build ups under Guardiola and Arteta.

Unfortunately this squad of players don’t really have the skills for it. Or not coached well enough.

Other issue, are the players we target suggested by the manager? Or just picked internally without thinking of the system and getting suitable players for it?

In the meantime, probably have to change up the system until the summer window where we can try and implement it properly with the right players.