Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
It’s woeful with the ball
Perfectly fine without it
Need conte to be optimistic, not pessimistic
No Romero… play Spence then
His pace will cover his lack of experience
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Tactics Thread
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Perfectly fine without it
Need conte to be optimistic, not pessimistic
No Romero… play Spence then
His pace will cover his lack of experience
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
Agreed. Audere Est Facere.
We know for a fact that teams will focus in on the Sanchez/Royal corner of the pitch and let them have the ball. It just doesn't work at the moment. So either make Royal play completely differently, or swap him out.
Rorschach
Ricky Villa
Indeed. Not used enough if that graphic is accurate.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
Can’t use a player if you can’t get the ball to him
You can’t get the ball out with our right side
metalgear
Luka Modric
Man marking Kulu forcing him to pass back to Royal works. Kulu is tricky but can be stifled with a faster marker. If onlg he had options to play off...unfortunately holberg is not that quick thinking and seldom or incapable to play a defence unlocking, quick one-two
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I don't remember anyone stifling Kulu. He's not the fastest, so it's not like he relies on his pace anyway. He can beat a player but also his passing is really good so it's not easy to take him out of the game. It's rare that he passes backwards.
parklane1
Tony Galvin
Neither do i to be honest, it was not his best game for sure but he still was one of our better players.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
You can’t stifle him, he is too smart for that
DeanoAustin
Rafael Van Der Vaart
That's standard for us. The 4 were also instructed not to cross the halfway line under any circumstances. That's fine, if that sort of thing floats your boat, all things being equal but not when you're one down in a tie.
Watch the last couple of minutes of the first half. Their defenders are knocking it between them. Kane is making a token effort to chase the ball knowing he'd be better off with his mickey in his hand and the Milan players are wondering how long they'll get away with it before Son and Kulu cross the halfway line which they never do.
fudging stupid, negative tactics in a game like that. Its not even the tactic, its the rigidity of it that the players can't deviate from it when it's making no sense right in front of their eyes.
That's fine if you are holding on to a 1-0 with 10 mins to go, not if you're the one trailing 1-0.
I hope they are all with Richy and say fudge his tactics and go out and play on the front foot for the rest of the season or until the new manager arrives.
SteveAWOL
Barry Daines
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A lot of that was down to our pressing. We'd start the press when we were too far from their player with the ball and he had time to pick a pass. With the front three and Sarr pressing it left a huge space in midfield with Chelsea players free in there. Until we learn when to press and when to drop off this is going to keep happening.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
He said Biss would man make palmer
Lost any credibility there straight away
SteveAWOL
Barry Daines
Guess that came from Maresca’s post-match interview.
Palmer clearly instilled panic into our defenders and Bissouma was typically the player nearest to him which left our back line even less shielded than normal. Although players being left unmarked at the far post has been a constant weakness this season.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
If that’s man marking then we have bigger issues than I realised
We have the perfect guy for man marking in Gray
That wasn’t man marking on any level
We don't man mark, some teams do it against us (because our players don't stay in positions)
We are a system team, big part of what we do is use open space, e.g. FB/CB sees space in front of them, they have license to go forward as far as they want, others in the team have to be aware and be expecting to cover (seen Udogie and Maddison swap positions multiple times). Player errors (sometimes driven by fatigue) make it look like the system doesn't even do the basics right, but that's not understanding the system.
People also miss a part of our system is the offside trap, and a lot of those counters that you remember is simply offside runs (it's something Villa uses quite a bit as well)