Thommo's perm » Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:30 am wrote:If this is indeed a tactic, then its not one I particularly enjoy. With each passing minute we go further and further back and resort to hoofing it, which results in it coming straight back, and with interest.
In training they should work on the likes of Aspas, Sterling, Ibe and Henderson being able to hold the ball up in the oppositons half. They dont seem to understand the pressure the midfield and then the defence is under, and end up increasing that pressure through their weak and careless play.
If I am to be criticital, its not that we dont have the players to do this, its that they dont seem to know how to do it and play on as if nothing is happening.
Show them the DVD and point it out
Spot on at the end there. It's the feeling in the some players, and sometimes the bench aren't even aware of the pressure. Pretty hard to watch, especially on a TV screen, when we get spanked like a b*tch by teams we once would have been spanking. Every games like a golden goal game. It's not healthy!