Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Rule 1 in football, when you don't have the ball you defend and these defensive duties are carried out by all 10 outfield players. We are playing in a league where we don't always have the majority of possession and thus spend far more time defending than attacking. We can't attack if we haven't got the ball. Because March is currently a more disciplined defender than Izquierdo he tends to spend more minutes on the pitch precisely because we see less of the ball as other teams are better at retaining possession than us as they often possess better players than us.
I don’t disagee, which is why I said he is a player that doesn’t suit Hughton’s tactics most of the time. His strengths are running with the ball at defenders and slick interplay whilst doing it. He would be a revelation at a team like Bournemouth, one of the other strugglers. Maybe if we we were more aggressive in the tackle rather than backing off most of the time we might be able to attack a bit more.
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