I don’t want to sound patronising and ask you why it’s called counter attacking football. But the clue is in the name
The reason we scored an average of three a game in the second half of last season was counter attack. But in order to play on the counter attack, you have to open the scoring to begin with or you have to have a side that will come out and attack. Death by a thousand passes is often a consequence not a feature. The alternative to what we are doing isn’t counter attack it’s route one football….and that would be lovely if we had the type of players who could a) play a decent long ball b) trap a decent long ball.
Deck chairs on the Titanic as I keep saying