Tir Na Nog
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Country: Ireland
It's interesting that one full-back (Kola or Saka when he played) tends to go and play as a winger in the build-up and the other tends to go inside and play as an extra midfielder (AMN). It'd be interesting to see how this would work if it was Tierney and Bellerin as our full-backs, would it be the opposite? As in Bellerin playing as the winger and Tierney coming inside as the extra midfielder? Or would Tierney play as a 3rd CB in the buildup allowing Xhaka to stay in midfield? Also if we're signing full-backs then this is something we'd have to keep in mind, probably the ideal full-back would be someone who's capable of playing more inverted and also having the capacity to play as an extra winger if needs be.
Also enjoyed the stuff in the video @DJ_Markstar talking about attacking the half spaces, getting players in those areas where it can be dangerous either getting a chance of their own, or creating space by forcing a defender to react. This is how you're supposed to attack, not whatever the **** Emery was trying to do. We should never appoint someone as cowardly again. Even someone like Conte who's seen as a more pragmatic manager wants to attack with as many players as possible, encouraging his midfielders to burst into those spaces, hence why Vidal at Juve used to get so many goals. Also attacking with 5 attackers against a back 4 it's obvious we're gonna stretch out the defence and someone will get into a space where they can get a chance. Against United Kola really proved to be of huge importance to us as AWB was up against Auba already and Auba kept coming inside meaning Kola had the space. We were killing them that side. And on the opposite side Pepe was doing damaging to tubby with ease allowing us to have Auba-Laca-Özil all in the centre up against two United CB's.
Then we get onto the high pressing, which is something that annoyed me that we seen such a lack of it under Emery because I thought he was a coach who encouraged pressing. I looked back to the PSG 4 Barca 0 game and the intensity and high-pressing of PSG that game, I assumed it was a reference point for an Emery team. Turns out that must have been quite a rarity because bar a few games in his first season it's not something we saw consistently. Under Arteta it's now one of the thing we do straight off the bat (apart from Leeds which we started slowly) but against Chelsea and United you saw straight away that we were gonna press their defences at any opportunity. It's the way I wanna see football being played because it causes a lot of problems for the opposition and never allows them to settle or be comfortable on the ball. It also gives us a different aura, for such a long time we were a bit passive when we didn't have the ball and I think most teams knew that, now all of a sudden we run like animals and teams will have think differently. Also it helps create a good atmosphere in the stadium, if the fans see the players running, closing down, trying to win the ball back the fans will back the players more.
The two best teams in the league City and Liverpool (and probably the world currently) press really high, lots of running, lots of aggression. This is modern football, Pochettino was doing it at Sp**s, Rodgers does it at Leicester to relative success. Bielsa and Leeds who'll probably get promoted and we saw how good they are on Monday. Tuchel with PSG presses high, Naggelsman and Leipzig who're going excellently. Rose and Mochengladbach. Ajax under Ten Hag who reached the CL semi-finals. I'm a bit wary of managers who don't get their teams to press at all, it doesn't have to be high pressing but just getting your side to sit off no matter if you're winning, losing, drawing and waiting for an opportunity is just too cowardly for me. Fortune favours the brave.
Also enjoyed the stuff in the video @DJ_Markstar talking about attacking the half spaces, getting players in those areas where it can be dangerous either getting a chance of their own, or creating space by forcing a defender to react. This is how you're supposed to attack, not whatever the **** Emery was trying to do. We should never appoint someone as cowardly again. Even someone like Conte who's seen as a more pragmatic manager wants to attack with as many players as possible, encouraging his midfielders to burst into those spaces, hence why Vidal at Juve used to get so many goals. Also attacking with 5 attackers against a back 4 it's obvious we're gonna stretch out the defence and someone will get into a space where they can get a chance. Against United Kola really proved to be of huge importance to us as AWB was up against Auba already and Auba kept coming inside meaning Kola had the space. We were killing them that side. And on the opposite side Pepe was doing damaging to tubby with ease allowing us to have Auba-Laca-Özil all in the centre up against two United CB's.
Then we get onto the high pressing, which is something that annoyed me that we seen such a lack of it under Emery because I thought he was a coach who encouraged pressing. I looked back to the PSG 4 Barca 0 game and the intensity and high-pressing of PSG that game, I assumed it was a reference point for an Emery team. Turns out that must have been quite a rarity because bar a few games in his first season it's not something we saw consistently. Under Arteta it's now one of the thing we do straight off the bat (apart from Leeds which we started slowly) but against Chelsea and United you saw straight away that we were gonna press their defences at any opportunity. It's the way I wanna see football being played because it causes a lot of problems for the opposition and never allows them to settle or be comfortable on the ball. It also gives us a different aura, for such a long time we were a bit passive when we didn't have the ball and I think most teams knew that, now all of a sudden we run like animals and teams will have think differently. Also it helps create a good atmosphere in the stadium, if the fans see the players running, closing down, trying to win the ball back the fans will back the players more.
The two best teams in the league City and Liverpool (and probably the world currently) press really high, lots of running, lots of aggression. This is modern football, Pochettino was doing it at Sp**s, Rodgers does it at Leicester to relative success. Bielsa and Leeds who'll probably get promoted and we saw how good they are on Monday. Tuchel with PSG presses high, Naggelsman and Leipzig who're going excellently. Rose and Mochengladbach. Ajax under Ten Hag who reached the CL semi-finals. I'm a bit wary of managers who don't get their teams to press at all, it doesn't have to be high pressing but just getting your side to sit off no matter if you're winning, losing, drawing and waiting for an opportunity is just too cowardly for me. Fortune favours the brave.