
Originally Posted by
HCZ_Reborn
I agree to the extent at which if a team is playing extremely defensively, the obligation is on us to work out a way of breaking through that defence…there’s no point just complaining that a mid table team comes to the Emirates and sticks eleven behind the ball…if I was the coach of a mid table side that’s exactly what I’d do.
As to the whole counter attacking argument, well I’d say it depends who we are playing. Wolves for example did have a fifteen minute period where they did go for us, but on the whole they didn’t change tact and become massively more adventurous I think errors were creeping into our game (sloppy passes from Gabriel, Saliba and Partey)
Sometimes it’s not that you can launch a counter attack because even when a team is coming forward, they’ve left enough players back to cover against a counter attack. Top teams like Liverpool and Man City usually have good recovery ability so they don’t find themselves vulnerable to the counter even when they commit men forward, but I do think if you look at the games at both anfield and the Etihad we didn’t take advantage of the break opportunities we did have.
It’s not like we never do it, there was a few goals we scored on the break last season. But sometimes yeah it feels like we don’t exploit the situation as much as we could