Originally Posted by
Steveo
Leeds - the team that basically play like we did just with a weaker squad.
When people go on about missing the long switch balls from Virgil, Trent and Hendo they are missing the crucial point. It's that physicality that got us 97 and 99 points and number 6!
What physicality Steveo? We were playing practically every game almost exclusively in the oppositions half of the pitch
You really seem absolutely incapable of grasping simple basic logistics and elements of physicality in football
If you play so much of every game in the oppositions half of the pitch, you're doing less running and far less longer sprints than almost every other team
Aside from Mane, we don't really have players who run with the ball, most other teams have a fair few more players who run with the ball more frequently, running with the ball consumes far more energy than making a run without it
The switches, long diagonals and attempted balls over the top didn't involve a lot of running compared to the amount of running other teams do, Robbo and Trent did do more than most of our other players, but Mane's and Mo's runs were mostly 5-15 yards because they were already advanced in the opposition half, the midfielders runs to support those passes and potentially win second balls were mostly only 5-10 yards for the same reason, and our way played at it's best in that run of P15 W15 our players weren't doing loads of the hard running and closing down other sides do a lot of because we were always defending when attacking
Defending when attacking had all our players taking great press and counter press positions while in possession to be able to join attacks when the play required their involvement or being in a great positions to stop the opposition countering (again energy saving) and quickly win the ball back.
You can keep saying it all you want Steveo, your 'musings' on this subject make no logical sense whatsoever, plus last season we had the ball a hell of a lot more a lot of the time and were conserving energy just playing keep ball before springing an attack with one of the switches, long diagonals or balls over the top, and our players got set in their positions for that while we were knocking it around the back
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