[Albion] What do you think our style of football is?

[Hometownglory]

I'm not sure what it is. The first half was painful. Much better in the second. Just got to have the right players to execute the plan. Don't care what other fans think of how we play, usually it's sour grapes.

Did St Pauli play direct football or tippy tappy? We looked much more effective when pinging a couple over the top rather than trying to pass through their 11 men behind the ball yesterday. Having a team than can adapt and play different ways is a positive.

 

[Machiavelli]

I mentioned it briefly in the match thread but I'm routinely baffled by where our players end up on the pitch.

Ayari in the 2nd half last night seemed to be popping up all over the place. I saw Pedro deep in our own half fairly often. Estupinan almost playing as a CM when we had the ball.

Maybe that's part of our style now? Players shifting around to be impactful in areas of the pitch you wouldn't necessarily expect them.

Think it's known as 'relationalism'

 

[nickjhs]

I honestly couldn’t tell you at the moment.

Is "work in progress" a style? This season is working this out, bedding in the new players and coach. Next season will be a cracker.

 

[Justice]

At least we saw something different on set plays, the delivery wasn’t always there although at last the set play coach seems to be doing something.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

We have a lot of players coming back from injury who can only play 30 to 45 minutes. So I think our current style is to try and play a 45 minute game. This means the plan is to just kill the game in the first half and attack in the second.

 

[Drebin]

We have a lot of players coming back from injury who can only play 30 to 45 minutes. So I think our current style is to try and play a 45 minute game. This means the plan is to just kill the game in the first half and attack in the second.

This was my immediate thought last night when I saw the line-up (especially the midfield) and the subs bench. It was all about the subs.

Two games in quick succession at the intensity Hürzeler wants isn’t possible, so he planned to make the first half a non-event by having three centre mids and no natural number 10.

We can maybe expect the same on Sunday. Southampton didn’t have enough left at the end of the game to see it through last night, and we won’t want the same to happen to us.