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Post by eric on Feb 5, 2023 20:55:42 GMT
Think a mixture is fine. Playing the ball around the back, is to try and bring some of the other teams player's towards that area, creating space further up the pitch. It will only work, if you attack quickly, when you get a chance. Otherwise the other team will get back and get compact anyway. If the other team are leaving players up, to press early. Then we might as well go a bit longer, from the goal kick. To move up the pitch. Then the other team might start dropping off, which will allow us to play out from the pitch other times. Too many sides think they have to play out every time. Even Man City have always mixed it up. Sometimes ederson will ping a 50 yard plus pass, when the other team pushes on. Problem is most keepers don't have the ability to do thatš¤£. They just kick it into touch instead. If you are 1-0 down at home to a struggling team they will more than happily sit deep and let you waste time oassing around the back five. Funny how fans complain when opposition spend a minute wasting time but dont notice your own team waste 3 minutes passing it round in circles. The referee wasted more time than both sides yesterday. A couple of times he stopped the game for a while with nobody really knowing what he was doing.
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Post by RD on Feb 6, 2023 8:07:00 GMT
I don't have an issue with passing rather than being direct, but you do have to go forwards with it! Passing it around aimlessly in our own half is all good and well if 2 or 3 up and trying to close the game out, but level or losing and it won't get you anywhere.
Right now we are re-living full blown Garnerball. The difference with last season is that, despite passing it we played with purpose.
One of the bigger problems is we don't seem to have the players with the energy levels to do that now in the main.
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