Fewtch
Özil at 10 And Emery Out
He doesn’t strike me as someone who’s great at beating his man tbh. I think he’d be perfect as the LCM in Arteta’s system with his play making and crossing abilities similar to how Pep uses KDB on the right half space.That’s pure b*llocks, they’ll cut their losses right now and sell for 25M.
I’m probably the worst Atletico fan to ask seen as I love Tommy but I think he’s been totally misused by Simeone.
The main system of pressing we’ve come up against is teams matching our formation and pressing us high and marking man to man.
Often they’ll send blocks of four after whoever has the ball out on the byline, completely cutting out the passing lanes from the back four to the wide players as you can see below and completely choke their service. Lemar’s in the square just above the centre circle.
To negate this, the obvious strategy is to bring the wide players inside and create overloads in the middle to disrupt the press.
When we have say Koke or Saúl on the flanks this isn’t an issue as they’re more than happy playing in the middle. Lemar though struggles in the middle of the pitch, he’s a winger who is great at beating his man and putting lethal balls into the box or running into space.
Playing such a rigid attacking pattern means he’s completely useless for us, he hasn’t been great but in the right system still think there’s a great player in there.