Teams ARE sitting deep to thwart our front line - this is the very point. And this is because they don’t fear the run and strike of a Coutinho - or the defence splitting ball of a Thiago... Without that ability to open up those crazy tight spaces we are unable to win enough games. It is what happens when you are reigning champions - teams just pack the box. You need midfielders with genuine technique and quality.... Barca - Real - Bayern - Juve... All these sides face the same as we are now.. What is different is the quality on the ball from behind the forwards.
No point looking back at set periods of time like 19 does to prove that a particular formation or lineup is the key. It just ain’t that simple. The very players themselves change and age - opposition change too and add different qualities to thwart what went before.
A top team has to be in constant evolution NOT staid and totally restricted to playing the same game over and over. It ALWAYS gets found out.
Thiago is a great signing - we should have been looking at this type of player years ago - IMO would have helped us to twice the haul we have....and younger version too but still - a great acquisition.
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