Originally Posted by
toshin
Many people have already said you can't play that high pressing game season after season especially with 4 comps. And most certainly not when you don't have oil money to buy world class backupsb for every position.
You can't compare to the game decades back either.
Also by your logic we really should fuck off henderson because he can't play that way anymore. So he's now useless to us in every aspect (except shouting).
We're not even playing that way for fucks sake, the break down of all automations means we can't play that way, the positioning off players of one another has been entirely shot by Jurgen's attempts to be tappy crappy
At our very best our press and counter press and winning of second balls through expert pressing, counter pressing and positioning of all the players off one another constantly throughout games was practically impenetrable, it wasn't about more yards of hard running, it was about automation and understanding
Our press gets broken all the time now, not because we can't run as much, because the relationships and understanding have all been broken down
Logistically, if you are so constantly expertly positioned off one another and able to constantly disarm any attempted opposition press by playing an attempted ball in behind, that either releases your player, or you win any second ball from through aforementioned expert positioning and automation, so bar the odd foot race between one of your CBs and a forward the opposition have lumped an aimless hopeful long ball for, you're playing almost the entire game in just one third of the pitch, with zero long sprints or having to turn and sprint towards your own goal, you ARE NOT using as much energy as our lads are now or doing the amount of physically punishing longer attempted recovery sprints
That so many people think a good pressing and counter pressing game is all about sprinting further and longer than the other side and spending the entire game doing that speaks volumes
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