Four, four, f***ing two?
Ditch the high line or the slow defenders maybe?
I agree
Thanks for sharing. I've only read the FH one. It's a very solid analysis and pretty comprehensive, although I'd like a little more critical insight into the shortfalls of the approach. I know there is a little on the shortfalls of a high defensive line, but Palmer's post-match comments seemed to be more incisive: we knew that Brighton would play a high line so we played first time passes over the top.It's fascinating watching FH talk tactically in interviews. From what he says there are clearly some coached structural patterns to follow but key to the philosophy and approach is an element of relational fluidity. This ultimately means a lot of scope for the individual to determine position rather than the structural rigidity in coaching we are more familiar with from RDZ. It's a pretty similar approach to what Rydstrom who we were also linked with in the summer does with Malmo successfully.
As a result, what we are seeing in attack is the benefit of some of this relational play as we look incredibly dangerous in our overloads. This comes with the risk of leaving us unbalanced and this is why the Rest defense is so important. What we are seeing in defence (kindly) is that the defensive patterns and positioning haven't fully been got to grips with yet and also a truck load of mistakes across the team from front to back.
Switching from the highly structured approach of RDZ which tactically is slightly easier to negate (in the long term) to something so fluid and relational (See Fernando Deniz for the extreme version) will take some time but is a better long term approach as it's less easy to counter.
Despite yesterday's result and a slow start in tactical understanding and a number of costly errors, if we can get to grips with it and FH is able to balance it right there is better long term potential in what he's trying to do. Implementation wise, the players have to understand what they're playing against in the moment so theoretically at least, the players are more able to react to what is around them and therefore are less easy to beat and able to find solutions in attack.
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Palmer's quote absolutely savage.
And we need to press for more than 15 minutes (which before yesterday we were doing) and, perhaps most importantly, stop giving the ball away. Certain players seemed intent on passing the ball either to Chelsea players or nowhere near ours.
That's a warning. Persist with the high line by all means, but the players must do the work out of possession. For whatever reason that didn't happen yesterday (shellshock?) and has to be different next Sunday.
