GdS: Positional rotation central to Fonseca’s plan to get strikers firing – the idea | OneFootball

After making a bright start to life as an AC Milan player, Tammy Abraham has ended up under the spotlight for the wrong reasons. As a result, Paulo Fonseca has come up with a plan to try and get him scoring again.

Abraham joined Milan on transfer deadline day during the summer on a dry loan from Roma and he assisted Rafael Leao within two minutes of his debut against Lazio. However, he is yet to score an open play goal and ended up at the centre of a penalty storm in Florence on Sunday.

As this morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes, the English striker is competing with Noah Okafor for a starting spot in next Saturday’s match against Udinese, unless in the meantime he convinces Fonseca that he can be useful in another role.

The Portuguese coach has come up with the idea of swapping the positions of Abraham and Alvaro Morata during the match. The Spanish striker has been used more as a No.10 in recent weeks in the new system but he could be moved closer to goal during parts of the match.

Then, the idea is that Abraham would be behind him to distribute the ball as a link-up forward and to use his movement to find space, keeping the opposing defenders busy and constantly guessing.

It must also be noted that Morata has only scored twice in seven games for Milan and while they were a couple of important goals, he too will hope to find a bit more scoring form given he averages one goal every 196 minutes at present.