Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
Of course there’s always space on a pitch, but if a team comes to defend that space will tend to be behind you and only in front of your opponents

It’s got nothing to do with style of play it’s to do with the fact that defenders and especially full backs are quicker and fitter than they used to be, if you’ve got a speed merchant on the wing the defence will double up on him, if you’ve got two (which we don’t currently) the job is much harder.

There is something to be said for being able to get the ball forward quickly but again only possible if you have someone technically competent in central midfield, we don’t…

As for Pep ball, you again are somehow convinced that the slow metronomic passing is a feature of a system. It’s not, it’s a consequence of where the team has been able to maintain their defensive shape before you’ve got into their third.

Of course you can pull players out of position and stretch play, but it’s a hell of a lot more difficult when a team has committed to positional discipline and only coming forward on the break.
Yes but teams find it easy to defend against us entirely because we are too slow to attack.

We are more concerned with racking up the possession and no. of passes completed stats to worry about actually running up the pitch directly, and putting the defences under any sort of pressure.

Instead they have a good 5 minutes to get their whole team back in the 18 yard a box and line up ready to stop our pass the ball the death attacking.