I’m interested to see how it will shape up, there’s immense potential & proven top quality in this squad
There are quite a few things we were brilliant at that teams knew were coming were well drilled to try & stop, but just couldn’t
Our press & counter press used to be second to none & a great source of many of our goals through winning second balls, dispossessing the opposition as they were coming out & trying to play out with their players not set as they had practiced so hard & to play players in or find them with crosses
The ARCM role & the triangle they played with RFWD & RFB each working to manipulate the space & players open or close the channel to try and release any of the 3 through the channel or wide with a ball through the channel or down the line & we also worked excellent crossing positions for Trent & Hendo with the option to play a low curved driven ball through the channel we’d opened
I’d be interested to see spells of our new mids playing midfield as Gini Hendo & Ox/Keits/Lallana/Milner even Shaq did at our very best For me everyone was pretty universal there wasn’t so much an issue with their roles, it was that they lacked in the passing department except for Hendo’s more direct passes, so if we have 3 mids now who if well drilled in a constant system can play the roles of those 3 but have the greater passing skills, maybe back to the future with our once best pressing & counter pressing game will reap dividends by bringing natural evolution
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