I think some people's struggle to understand how the issues arose and how they drastically limited almost all our players performing to their best is through their seemingly viewing the game purely based on what players do with the ball and it somehow almost completely unsighting them to the absolute importance of what they all do individual and collectively without it and the absolute chasm of difference between what they do trying to play 18-20 style or with a designated playmaker
If you think about it in the very simplest of terms, if you have one player constantly demanding the ball short from your keeper and defenders you are easy to mark and press and you lose your own pressing and counter pressing ability, 11 players collectively making the play from numerous different points of attack is very obviously far stronger, less easy to defend against or set up to press
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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