Originally Posted by
Steveo
It was a horror show of a goal to concede on many levels - 100% - but the system you want us to keep playing has had to change....our first line of defence are clocking up too many miles.
That’s how I see it anyway. We have to change - evolve and have more than one way to play - otherwise we are totally reliant on players all remaining fit - never ageing - and on nobody ever finding a way to counter our approach.
The obvious evolution was bringing in Thiago so the forwards and full backs could be found more regularly and easily and both could evolve by adding different runs from the same starting positions to their repetoirs that Thiago could connect and prompt and having 2 players in our midfield who can play the switches and balls over the top
Teams barely got successful transitions against us all last season, so it's not as if teams had somehow worked us out, with the press and counter press teams know what they want to do, but barely ever get to do it. The switches are incredibly important, because while defending teams are always working on trying to create a transition, getting set to try and create a transition, if you have 2 players playing the switches and different types of top quality balls we'd expect from Thiago, you are constantly moving the opposition, making them change position and readjust their position, this in itself is a great form of defence, because you are stopping them from ever getting set into the position they have planned to be to work a successful transition
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