| Home form 07:33 - Feb 25 with 417 views | Dr_Winston |
Has been our biggest problem for much of the season, and this piece, whilst as Premier League centric as you'd expect, goes a long way towards perhaps explaining why.
Particularly this bit:
"Teams like Bournemouth have had huge success playing in this more aggressive style - but does it also help sides playing away from home, with less onus on them to dominate the ball and push forward, but instead break quickly and hit teams on the counter-attack?
The percentage of goals scored after "fast breaks", according to Opta, has never been higher than this season.
It feeds into the notion of the classic, archetypal 'away goal' - soak up pressure, win the ball back and hit the home side on the break."
How many times have we been caught on the counter? How many times has our slow, tedious possession style prevented us from doing the same?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clynv3x120no |  |
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| Home form on 07:42 - Feb 25 with 379 views | STID2017 |
Hopefully under Sheehan that will be a distant memory
I am not naive to believe we wont have defeats and disappointments under him, but at least it wont be for the want of trying.
I would rather be caught now and again on the break under Sheehan than sit back and invite pressure or a break as under Martin / William's
I think the style of football under both has Williams and Martin has been shown to be ineffective in the long run and is the reason both are now without positions |  |
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| Home form on 13:22 - Feb 25 with 197 views | Whiterockin |
This season I have enjoyed watching Nottingham Forest more than Man City, basically for the way they break forward. |  | | |
| Home form on 13:41 - Feb 25 with 179 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
| Home form on 07:42 - Feb 25 by STID2017 |
Hopefully under Sheehan that will be a distant memory
I am not naive to believe we wont have defeats and disappointments under him, but at least it wont be for the want of trying.
I would rather be caught now and again on the break under Sheehan than sit back and invite pressure or a break as under Martin / William's
I think the style of football under both has Williams and Martin has been shown to be ineffective in the long run and is the reason both are now without positions |
It’s only ineffective when you don’t have the players to play like that. We don’t. If we had the likes of Leon, Joey, Rangel, Dyer, De Guzman etc in their prime who were intelligent and hard working on and off the ball, can turn on a sixpence and use both feet we could play like that and be successful even in todays game.
Arguably in recent years the only player we’ve had that could fit into that style of play like that is Flynn downes. |  |
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| Home form on 17:24 - Feb 25 with 66 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Home form on 13:41 - Feb 25 by Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
It’s only ineffective when you don’t have the players to play like that. We don’t. If we had the likes of Leon, Joey, Rangel, Dyer, De Guzman etc in their prime who were intelligent and hard working on and off the ball, can turn on a sixpence and use both feet we could play like that and be successful even in todays game.
Arguably in recent years the only player we’ve had that could fit into that style of play like that is Flynn downes. |
I am not tactical expert but even I can see Martin and Williams were not playing like Laudrup's team did. The difference was not the players skill level but the way they played.
Laudrup had the movement of DecGuzman Routledge Dyer Hernandez Muchu etc. Swansea player like Grimes and Fulton are static players with one static player passing to another static player most of the time. |  |
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| Home form on 17:44 - Feb 25 with 40 views | max936 |
| Home form on 13:41 - Feb 25 by Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
It’s only ineffective when you don’t have the players to play like that. We don’t. If we had the likes of Leon, Joey, Rangel, Dyer, De Guzman etc in their prime who were intelligent and hard working on and off the ball, can turn on a sixpence and use both feet we could play like that and be successful even in todays game.
Arguably in recent years the only player we’ve had that could fit into that style of play like that is Flynn downes. |
I'm not having De Guzman in the same sentence as Leon, Joey, Rangel or Dyer, I didn't like him if I'm honest yes he had his moments, but there was a reason for him starting on the bench as much as he did, bit of a hide and seek champion in my opinion.
Other's won't agree as is their right, but it's just my opinion. |  |
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| Home form on 18:24 - Feb 25 with 3 views | SullutaCreturned |
| Home form on 13:41 - Feb 25 by Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
It’s only ineffective when you don’t have the players to play like that. We don’t. If we had the likes of Leon, Joey, Rangel, Dyer, De Guzman etc in their prime who were intelligent and hard working on and off the ball, can turn on a sixpence and use both feet we could play like that and be successful even in todays game.
Arguably in recent years the only player we’ve had that could fit into that style of play like that is Flynn downes. |
Which makes trying to play that way with players clearly not good enough look quite a bit silly. Specially when you've been trying for months with very little success and 2 months with only one win.
A good manager plays to the strengths of his squad. he doesn't try to make a silk purse out of a sows' ear.
Our slow paced play has been a thing of joy to the oppo who surely cannot believe how lucky they were to play against a team who moved more slowly than a slow sloth moving slowly on a slow day! |  | | |
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