Indeed, but they’ve had a very poor season by their standards with a similar percentage for the season.Man City had 62% and ripped Newcastle a new one
[Football] The Second Coming Of Route One?
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Wardy's twin
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though the worst culprits are the two CBs.....
Is that still part of the plan under our most recent coaches …. possession, draw the opposition in?
Wardy's twin
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Difficult to know but it happens too much when Dunk plays... I think he possibly has been Brighton's best ever player but IMO he inhibits fast play...
Not disagreeing, but acting under instructions? With the LB and RCB obsessive in passing back to him when he plays?
American Seagle
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This is also what annoys with people moaning about "dicking about at the back" as it was EXACTLY that that allowed the long ball move to happen.
The Fits
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Things are definitely changing. Football is reactive on the whole. A few managers/clubs start trying something that works (or what they’ve always done starts working) and then everyone does it. Forest and Bournemouth’s success this season which is direct in different ways- one basically long ball and one who try a focus on progressing the ball up the pitch as quickly as possible- won’t have gone unnoticed much the same as most managers took bits from RDZs first season very quickly.
Watched Barca vs Vallecano last night. They still very much play in Iraola’s mould. Barca won but couldn’t really handle them and they could have easily won by a couple of goals on another day. That style, essentially the combination of a hyper aggressive press and hyper aggressive attacking intent,
is very different to the football we’ve got used to over the last decade or so. There’s absolutely no patience in it. I think that will become the prevalent tactic over the next few years. Which means, inevitably, weaker teams will have to also adapt, again. And I suspect the answer to that will be much closer to what we think of as long ball. I’m pretty certain over the next few years the number of passes will go down. (As an aside, Vallecano use their GK in a realy interesting way. He still receives the ball a lot but he absolutely fires it out to players, especially out wide. Clearly an instruction- no lofted passes, fewer short passes, just get the ball into dangerous areas as quickly as possible.)
Watched Barca vs Vallecano last night. They still very much play in Iraola’s mould. Barca won but couldn’t really handle them and they could have easily won by a couple of goals on another day. That style, essentially the combination of a hyper aggressive press and hyper aggressive attacking intent,
is very different to the football we’ve got used to over the last decade or so. There’s absolutely no patience in it. I think that will become the prevalent tactic over the next few years. Which means, inevitably, weaker teams will have to also adapt, again. And I suspect the answer to that will be much closer to what we think of as long ball. I’m pretty certain over the next few years the number of passes will go down. (As an aside, Vallecano use their GK in a realy interesting way. He still receives the ball a lot but he absolutely fires it out to players, especially out wide. Clearly an instruction- no lofted passes, fewer short passes, just get the ball into dangerous areas as quickly as possible.)
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Kalimantan Gull
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I just watched the Leicester City title winning documentary on the plane and Kasper Schmeichel talks about this, about how teams got obsessed with tiki taka football, but 'if you can do it in 1 pass' why take 5?' They were compact and direct, much like Forest are this season, and dare I say it, much like we have been in our best results this season