Originally Posted by
justme
Thiago has never been good enough for us..
It's not a case of not good enough, he was simply never the right type of midfield signing, there is no denying in the right kind of league (a one team league in which he plays for the one team ) and team he is an absolutely incredible player, he was just never a fit for how we played and our trying to change how we play to suit him better has wrecked everything
We can't release the runs in behind
We don't play the balls to release them when it's on
We've stopped making them almost entirely as a result
We've lost the automation of the full back and LCM or RCM pushing forward and aligning themselves to support the forwards run in behind and winning any second ball and being in an expert counter pressing position through stopping making the runs in behind
Because we're playing almost exclusively in front of sides and trying to play tappy crappy we're always in poor pressing and counter pressing positions and wide open to counters when we inevitably lose the ball because we don't have the players to play tappy crappy
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