Solely St Mirren scored fewer targets than Aberdeen final season, with the Dons discovering the web 40 occasions in 38 league matches. That price was even poorer away from dwelling.
It is a matter they merely have to unravel in the event that they need to return to the highest half of the desk. So how would possibly they go about it?
No workforce performed extra lengthy passes than St Mirren over Robinson’s 4 years in cost, whereas solely Celtic and Rangers put extra balls into the opposition’s field.
They used three centre-backs with wing-backs constantly, generally with two strikers, however at different factors with two superior midfielders both aspect of a single striker.
Will Robinson undertake the same form? He did when he got here in final season to attempt to add some defensive solidity.
However the addition of winger Tony Yogane from Dundee, the return of Toyosi Olusanya, and a keeness to get extra from Kenan Bilalovic might imply 4-3-3 is an effective choice to get the most effective from them, and Aberdeen’s full-backs, none of whom are an ideal match at wing-back.
Solely Sebastien Tounekti, Alexandros Kyziridis, Mikey, Moore, and Djeidi Gassama created extra probabilities from dribbles than Yogane final season.
And although Dundee did typically play with three on the again and wing-backs, the previous Brentford participant benefitted from more room to run into quite than overlapping gamers round him, and Robinson has talked repeatedly about getting extra from the tempo within the workforce.
Up entrance, Kevin Nisbet was the membership’s prime scorer final season with 11 targets regardless of being starved of service.
With Marko Lazetic doubtlessly shifting on, Moroccan striker Ayoub Mouloua joined final week having scored 19 targets in 53 video games for FUS Rabat.
Like Nisbet, the 23-year-old doesn’t look like a conventional goal man, which can additionally trace at a distinct strategy from Robinson.
Saturday’s pleasant towards FC Twente on the finish of per week’s coaching camp within the Netherlands will inform followers much more about how Aberdeen intend to play.
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