Playing the percentages
I thought there was a thread on this, but I can't find it on a search
We need video analysis and coaching work on this pretty urgently as our players complete absence of any understanding of what it entails in the appropriate positions to employ it has been going on far FAR too long
The nature of the coaching and video analysis needs to demonstrate all 100's of positions we waste every single season in which there is a massively crowded penalty area in a low block, and either Trent or Robbo is released in the box in an inside left or right position, we have 2 or 3 players central, perfectly placed to hold their position and to try and react first to pounce on any parry or save by the keeper to steer it home
It needs to be explained that trying to pick any of those players out with a pass from the positions Trent or Robbo have been released in has a desperately low percentage of success and we know this because we try it every fucking time and score about 1 in every 200 or more times we attempt it
It needs to be drilled into our players that in these positions, drilling the ball on target low and hard to whichever side of the keeper we have the most players in great positions to bundle any parry home in is the right course of action
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