[Albion] Does a balanced defence need strong foot bias?

[Guinness Boy]

Started today with four right footed defenders in a back four. By half time we had RRLL in the right places.

The first thing you’re taught as a player is turn out. Ferdie was always turning in.

Is a balanced defence better than shoe horning in the “best players” in bad positions?

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I think it can help you play faster when building from deep. We can take fewer touches.

In the full back positions i think it is important. The great majority of full backs play on the side they kick with for a reason.

In centre back, i think it's less of an advantage, but some managers really want it. RDZ really wanted colwill in as he thought he could get us attacking quicker than jpvh.

 

[Shooting Star]

I have no idea to the answer but this is a great thread. These are the kind of questions the so-called "pundits" should be asking and answering. Instead, it's the tired old clichés and rhetorical questions, like "Hürzeler would have been pleased with that after being 2-0 down."

I remember when Maupay scored THAT equaliser against Palace at Selhurst, and Thierry Henry asked him at what moment he decided to lob the keeper. It's stuck in my mind as one of the very few good questions I've ever heard a footballer asked and one that I actually wanted to hear the answer to. People say many footballers are dull, but I'd challenge that and call out the pundits and anchors for asking rubbish questions that elicit rubbish answers. Ask an interesting question like the one in this thread and it might surprise us how knowledgeable the footballers are!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have no idea to the answer but this is a great thread. These are the kind of questions the so-called "pundits" should be asking and answering. Instead, it's the tired old clichés and rhetorical questions, like "Hürzeler would have been pleased with that after being 2-0 down."

I remember when Maupay scored THAT equaliser against Palace at Selhurst, and Thierry Henry asked him at what moment he decided to lob the keeper. It's stuck in my mind as one of the very few good questions I've ever heard a footballer asked and one that I actually wanted to hear the answer to. People say many footballers are dull, but I'd challenge that and call out the pundits and anchors for asking rubbish questions that elicit rubbish answers. Ask an interesting question like the one in this thread and it might surprise us how knowledgeable the footballers are!

Good point. Scholes asked Welbeck about his time at Brighton and why he had been able to stay relatively injury free down here. Good question. Muzzer asked a few good questions as well. Tim Sherwood is an utter moron though. Scholes even picked him up one point he made about how players don’t care about results as much as managers.

 

[Han Solo]

Its ok with inverted full backs but four right foots makes it really tough to play out properly. At least one of the LCB or LB need to be left footed or it gets really awkward finding the angles to pass it through the lines.

When you know that the LB will never be able to play a sensitive long pass on the outside of their RB/RM, they can just take a step inside and cut off pass angles. Its messy.

 

[Hugo Rune]

I think Hürzeler LOVES and inverted left back. The opposite function to what Cancelo was doing so effectively for Pep.

However, despite favouring Hinshelwood and now Kadīoglu at left back, Pervis has made his point. I don’t think he’ll get dropped for the foreseeable. A left footed LB is the way.

And as for Igor, he has done enough to retain his position for quite some time.

 

[Napper]

And as for Igor, he has done enough to retain his position for quite some time.

Better than Webster

 

[Shaktarman]

There’s no denying it - the high line is totally wrong with our lack of pace and he was nuts to continue with it last week and today. Sorry, my opinion is it’s stubborn and silly. Need to drop 10/20 yards. Can play like that when chasing a game but not against fast attacks. Needs to sort it out.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I think Hürzeler LOVES and inverted left back. The opposite function to what Cancelo was doing so effectively for Pep.

However, despite favouring Hinshelwood and now Kadīoglu at left back, Pervis has made his point. I don’t think he’ll get dropped for the foreseeable. A left footed LB is the way.

And as for Igor, he has done enough to retain his position for quite some time.

Thought Igor struggled, jumping in when on a yellow card isn’t the most sensible thing to do….

 

[Mackenzie]

Helped that Dunk played in his best position

 

[Guinness Boy]

Thought Igor struggled, jumping in when on a yellow card isn’t the most sensible thing to do….

Disagree. That was a good foul. We should have been breaking up their play earlier from the get go.

Why he was that high is the issue. It’s not like we were exactly compact.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Disagree. That was a good foul. We should have been breaking up their play earlier from the get go.

Why he was that high is the issue. It’s not like we were exactly compact.

He missed the player, in the incident I’m referring to, the yellow was in the first half, the missed challenge (which was brainless when on a yellow) was the second.