Ryan Lowe’s preferred formation not yet offered to Preston

Preston North End manager Ryan Lowe has used the 3-5-2 formation throughout his career, with successes at Bury and Plymouth Argyle. That’s a formation he’s continued with at Preston, but we’ve yet to really see consistent performances that the formation pays off.

He had two transfer windows to help bring players in properly, but we’re still short. I have a team. A solid defense has saved Lowe so far, but the lack of goals and creativity up front are very frustrating to watch.If the defense is clean and he can’t manage the sheet, he usually loses.

Such was the case when he scored four times in the net against Blackpool on Saturday.
The first 60 minutes looked good, but an injury to Greg Cunningham proved fatal.

In such an important match Ryan Lowe should have realized that it might be time to change the formation when Cunningham went down. Not really, but that’s what I ended up getting when I was chasing the game anyway. Had he gone 1-1, it might have been a different type of game, he could have had an extra player in the attacking area, so he could have created more space. .

I don’t have any players in the team who would allow me to change formations. No natural born winger, except perhaps Robbie Brady. Our midfielders are too similar, but used to square pegs in round holes. We could have gotten out and the three midfielders were still behind. We could have taken the lead, but instead Blackpool dominated the game after Cunningham’s departure.

We rarely see the kind of attacking football Lowe promised us. There are no offensive wingbacks, which is very important for this formation. We play in the middle of midfield with him three, sometimes he plays with four, but overall they go too deep.

More goal contributions from Ben Whiteman could have done. His penalty on Saturday was his first goal since last November. He averaged one goal in every seven games he played for Doncaster at his Rovers. But for Preston, that equates to him one goal in his 16 games.

Alan Brown didn’t really fit in this formation, or could do in-between, but it didn’t come close to the standard he knew he could do. increase. Woodburn and Brady look like the favored options to sit behind the striker, but neither has yet set the world on fire this season.

Emile Reese needs a quality partner to play together up front. Troy Parrott had everything but his goals, but when he managed to reach his goals, he ended up spending the rest of the year in the treatment room. But there was no contingency plan for that.

Hopeful, optimistic, excited or not disappointed about Preston North End at this time. There doesn’t seem to be any long term plans we are working on. Closing the gap with temporary measures, fans are already fed up.