- May 23, 2015
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Recovery pace in defence. ManU against Everton showed how it ends.My general concern is that whoever we bring in to have us play ”on the front foot” (intense pressing, attacking and possession-based footie etc) will likely struggle to do so with our current squad. Primarily because it is severly lacking in the three basic elements below, which IMO are essential for such tactics. So whereas Conte ball certainly has not been very entertaining (and not something I want to see more of), I can still understand his rationale for defending low considering the shortcomings of our squad.
- Pressing from the front - Kane and Son (for all their qualities) no longer have the legs to do that. Brighton (like most teams before them) played through our press with ease.
- Playing out from the back/press resistance - Basically all opponents have figured out that the risk/reward of pressing us high is very favorable, which often sees us pinned back in our own half. And with the exception of Porro/Romero (maybe Lenglet at a stretch), the rest of our defenders do not have the basic technique/vision to play out from the back. To improve this we also need to upgrade our ballplaying qualities in CM (as pretty much only Bents is at all press resistant).
- Recovery pace in defence - our current lot simply do not have it, and without it we will be murdered on the counter if we still try to play a high line defence.