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A lot of outlets are talking about the Morelos and Colak angle, of both strikers teaming up in a partnership up front.

As we told you some weeks ago, manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst has never played with this style, of a duo up top, and when asked directly about it rather dismissed it, saying he’d only ever use that if he needed to ‘force’ something.

Now, what that means is anyone’s guess, because we’ve needed to force quite a lot in recent weeks, yet the Croatian and Colombian remained parted, only ever replacing each other, not complimenting one another.

Is this something that can be explored in reality?

Well, Gio has categorically rejected it – not just in the words above, but in asserting recently that he will not change anything, won’t alter his philosophies due to a bad run lately.

That in itself means, almost certainly, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of Colak and Morelos teaming up.

But what would it give us if he would entertain it?

Well the answer is ‘quite a lot’.

Striking partnerships rarely take place these days because of managers’ desires to fill midfield and win that battle – using a second striker loses a body in the middle meaning the opponent has an extra man to dictate the centre, and games are often won and lost in that area.

And Gio himself has spoken of this, emphasising it.

But if he made that sacrifice, he really does have a striking duo that could compliment each other brilliantly – Colak is the perfect poacher, scorer, clinical finisher – he is absolutely stellar at taking chances, and his off-ball movement is completely top drawer as well.

Meanwhile Morelos is the battering ram – drags defenders around, creates space, harries, and generally funnels transitions up the park due to all the fouls he wins and movement he creates.

So you have one doing the digging, the mucky work, and the other finishing off the scraps, exploiting the vulnerabilities.

It could work indeed but the manager doesn’t seem to want to entertain it.

So while we can wonder what it would do to opponents, unfortunately we’re very unlikely to see it.