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One factor I observed within the Southampton win final night time was that we had been getting essentially the most pleasure by way of attacking play when Filip Jorgensen lobbed a brief cross ahead or hit a floor cross by way of to Pedro Neto, moderately than passing it forwards and backwards to Enzo Fernandez hoping that we may squeeze a cross by way of the press.
In fact, whenever you play by way of a excessive press it might probably have excessive rewards. But additionally, when you don’t play by way of it, and you’re enjoying towards good attackers and a well-drilled press, you’re at actual danger of conceding an enormous probability or a purpose. I see that as scoring an personal purpose, if the opposition rating from us having possession from our personal goalkeeper. It’s simply as dangerous.
Conceding a purpose from this may not truly occur that always, however it does put us underneath immense strain and in danger.
I truly felt sorry for Filip Jorgensen final night time. He had simply made an enormous mistake to lose us the sport towards Aston Villa on the weekend, you may see he was feeling the strain. And enjoying out from the again towards Southampton he was a nervous wreck. The group felt it, his group mates felt it, everybody felt and noticed it. It was removed from very best. You possibly can moan at followers for groaning when this occurs, however can you actually blame them!?
It was so irritating to see Fernandez simply preserve giving the ball again to Jorgensen in actually tight areas, then Jorgensen give it to Levi Colwill or Tosin Adarabioyo in much more tighter areas as a result of they might not get out. This simply encourages the squeez and the nearer we get to our purpose then, the extra harmful it turns into.
The largest difficulty was that Saints had been man-marking, so there wasn’t the out there choices for Jorgensen to cross to. So enjoying out from the again and making an attempt to play by way of the press was what we needed to try to do. However was it? Or is that this simply the one approach that Maresca needs us to play? Sadly, it sounds just like the latter.
Maresca mentioned on Jorgensen getting jeered by followers when kicking quick out from the again:
“My message to Filip was when you play an extended ball, I’ll change you, I’m very blissful. It’s troublesome for all of the keepers [when that happens] however they only have to comply with the plan.”
I truly can not consider what I’m studying right here. He’s forcing his goalkeeper to ALWAYS play quick. Why? Why can’t you turn it up generally? Why does it at all times need to be this fashion? I really don’t perceive it. I get you could have a mode of play and approach of enjoying the sport, however why so cussed to it? I get that is the fashionable approach of enjoying. However why not be capable of swap issues up underneath circumstances the place the opposition are man-marking and there aren’t any choices for the keeper? That is my largest gripe with Maresca and people who employed him, his lack of flexibility in his ways and lack of pragmatism. I believe any modern-day supervisor to succeed on the prime degree now wants to have the ability to alter and adapt. Soccer for me is transferring on from pure possession play that noticed Pep Guardiola succeed for thus lengthy. Groups are adapting to it and studying tips on how to play towards it. Enjoying out from the again just isn’t one thing I’m towards in any respect and see the professionals, however a number of the finest groups now are extra hybrid with this and can search for passes additional ahead if they’re on. Some even use the extra quaint approach of getting a goal man, think about that?
I’ll return to my first sentence, Chelsea bought their most success by way of getting up the pitch quick and doing extra than simply passing the ball throughout our 18-yard field when Jorgensen determined to cross a bit additional ahead, clearly towards the orders of his supervisor who threatened to sub him off if he saved doing that! What the hell!?
I’m not saying the keeper ought to aimlessly lump it ahead. However what Chelsea had final night time was truly focus in Pedro Neto, who’s surprisingly robust and good holding the ball up. Jorgensen may see that and used him a few occasions with some lengthy floor passes that by-passed the excessive press. This was the important thing to get by way of as a consequence of Neto’s clever and fast motion to get away from his marker.
I additionally noticed a few good lobbed passes by Jorgensen to get by the preliminary press, and so they labored fairly properly principally as properly. Even the commentators final night time may see that this was what Chelsea wanted to do on this second.
Why would you not need to use unpredictable performs in addition to merely simply passing out quick? I actually don’t perceive it. Be various, swap it up, trump your opponents, adapt to how they’re setup. It’s all frequent sense, no?
Why stick with a approach of enjoying when it was clearly not working (first 25 minutes)? My god that was so bland, so sluggish, and so frustratingly annoying simply watching Jorgensen passing it forwards and backwards to Fernandez while the Saints attackers had been getting nearer and nearer to nipping in and profitable the ball again. We bought useless fortunate there. In opposition to a greater opposition, we’d have been severely punished doing that.
I’m not some old skool ‘route one’ smash it ahead type of man. However I’m very balanced in nature and in life, so I need to see us having and utilizing different choices to have the ability to play out when the quick passing just isn’t working. Why would you even need to play so predictable ALL the time?
However sadly our supervisor is caught with a technique and a technique solely. Bookmark this text, as a result of this fashion of cussed pondering goes to come back again to hang-out us quickly. I admit after we can play by way of a press then it really works properly, however do we now have the standard goalkeepers and centre backs to have the ability to do that proper now? No, we completely don’t.
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