IT’S HARD WORK BEING A STRIKER THESE DAYS

SAM COX explains why too many clubs are making a big mistake by trying to play like Barcelona

Zlatan Ibrahimovic In the football world that is led by Lionel Messi playing as ‘False 9’, being a striker has almost gone out of fashion. Attacking midfielders dominate and every club seems to have an obscene amount of options who are wanting to play as a number 10. Strikers still hold the value, as the massive transfers of Radamel Falcao and Edison Cavani showed last summer, but the criticism they receive for their goal return is not always just as tactics have develope...

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