------------------------------ Fisher ------------------------------
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------------------------------ Wood ------------------------------
-------- Naughton --------- ST ------------- Darling ---------
-------------- Ntcham ---- Fulton ------ Grimes -------------
-LM -------------- CM ------------------ CM --------------- RM
-------------------------------- Dm --------------------------------
Latibeaudiere ----- Obafemi ---- Piroe -------- Manning
Def --------------------- Def ---------- Def ---------------- Def
How to beat Swansea City under Martin...
The bank of 4 midfielder take it in turns to assist the striker, pressing...then sit in whilst we pass it around the back knowing that we will never play that long ball forward so our front 4 can have a go one-on-one....even if we did, the DM would drop in to assist the defence.
Sometimes a team plays 2 strikers (to really chase down our back 3, with a bank of 3 midfielders doing the pressing (1 at a time).
They are happy for us to have the ball back there for 70% of the time, they are controlling the game and are satisfied that when they have their 30% of the ball they will be stealing it in our half with a 5 v 5 situation (if we're lucky, more often than not they have an overload because we lose the ball unexpectedly with our players too high to get back)
This is why they score so many goals against us with so little of the ball. |  |
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