- Jul 31, 2011
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We have struggled against park the bus teams for several seasons. Pochettino has been tactical savvy enough to out play the likes of RM and Dortmund. He's no mug and I don't believe our main problems are tactical.
I believe the simple truth is that we don't have the right players to break down these WBA type of teams. Especially when our best players are out of form. We always look twice the team when we face teams that go at us because that plays to our players strengths. We just don't have that pure pace or technical type of players. And even Liverpool and United who have those players have struggled against park the bus teams.
This is it IMO...city just drew to Huddersfield and look at their squad.
The game was their for the taking, but no width and no guile in the middle. There were very few if any 1,2s and just very slow in the middle of the pitch. Didn’t look like we did when it was Son, Alli, Lamela, Eriksen, but form also has to be taken into account.
Either way, what is necessary as we move forward is a bit more pressing IMO. We need to start chocking teams in dangerous situations and creating counters in their half. Yesterday we kept getting the ball back, but it was in the middle of a park on a hoof. We need to be winning it off the foot of a fullback or a midfielder and turning that into a counter. Why this part of our game has left us is beyond me