Home tactic - It looks good, but for how wide, fast and attacking you play id personally feel direct passing was a better option and would have more effect. Or a more normal passing at the least. Playing short passing and very fast tempo just doesn't work for me, especially seeing that both are interlinked with one another. I also noticed 4 players with maxed out CF almost. Thats a lot of players in your team ignoring your instructions and using their own brain. Interestingly who is your 2 wingers and 2 strikers? Are they capable of having a lot of creative freedom? I guess I'll know more about your team when I watch the PKM's in a few minutes, just wanted to check your tactic first
Early on I also notice you have both strikers cross the ball often. This is good if you got players making the rund into the box, something I don't see you doing atm. I just used the tactic in one of my games to see if I could get a feel for it and it worked really good. However I think I saw the problems of why you play good yet fail to score. But I'll comment on that after I viewed your game cos obviously the tactic was created for you side not mine.
Arsenal vs. Sheff utd
After 2 minutes I already see a big problem and thats the space between defence and strikers its huge at times. Even though its early on and you are the ebtetr side and dominating this would still be a cause for concern against quick counter attacks. Your playing with almost 4 strikers constantly, which is good going forward but no good on the defence side, especiall if this was a decent side. Rosicky is playing far too close to Vela, he's almost on top of him at times and so far I've only watched the first 2 minutes.
I've now watched 10 minutes and one thing I am noticing is everything is rushed by you. You are the favourites and far superior than Sheff Utd so you should take a hold of this game. I feel you are playing a too fast tempo for this match and thats why your dominating but not doing anything useful ths far with the possession. If you toned the tempo down in this game you'd be 2-0 up now id put money on it. Your getting forward but its too fast paced, if you slow it down the chnaces would be better what you create and more accurate. You are making the space and getting the bodies forward, you just need tot ake the next step now and be more composed.
The first shot you have you score from a freekick.
For opposition corners you only leave 1 player upfield, try letting two players stay up at all times as its easier to break away then and the ball wont be played back into your areaif it should be cleared.
After 17 minutes I checked the stats and Vela as not done anything not even a single pass. There are 2 reasons for this, 1 Hleb is that far forward hes getting in his way, limititng his space. Also Baptista is playing as the rihght striker yet drifting to the left far too much and again getting in Vela's way. Id put this down to a creative freedom issue. So effectively you got a spare playing in Vela who just can't do anhthing because his own team are reducing the space in which he plays.
Batista also seems to drop deep a lot more than Vela, is he set up different in this match? Or is it his creative freedom thats allowing this to happen? Hes going searching for the ball which is good, but when the MC's push up hes getting caught behind the rest of the play.
Your wingers and strikers all seem to playing the same line, meaning if a cross goes in the box it misses em all as noone is arriving late. Id like to see your wingers arrive a little later as this will create quite a few chances for you and could result in goals. This could be due to the forward arrows they have and coupled with the fact a very attacking mentality.
Good play for the second goal, you definetly are playing well indeed.
Are your wingers on easy tacking and told not to press much? It seems like they stand there and let players pass them. They don't make no effort to win the ball at all.
The first half was really good, I am impressed with aspects of this tactic and it looks really good. A few concerns though I have highlighted above. Another thing is your centebacks look a little lost on the ball sometimes, I think this reason is the very low creative freedom they ahve. I think it needs to be a few notches higher so they distribute the ball slightly better and don't dwell too much. I'm not saying give them lots but anything just under normal would be better. Especially as you have good centrebacks who like to bring the ball out of the back and move forward.
Id also like to see Fabergas give up his defensive duties as hes playing really well and creating everything you do. But at times hes running around like a headless chicken when Gilberto could deal with the problem much easier.
Baptista as had a knock for a while now, he doesn;t seem to be moving as freely as he did. Thought about changing him?
I know I mentioned it before but the gap between the fullbacks and the stikers is huge. Its a real problem area this I feel as the gap spreads right to the top of the field at times. I feel United first goal was because of this as your right back was out of position so the wing was more aless free.
Eboue is playing really well, hes just got no support at all in front of him.
A bad pass for United second goal and because your central defenders push up quite high a bad pass like this is always going to cause problems. Both your defenders seem to play higher than your fullbacks at times. Have one of them drop back slightly and it will help for situations like this.
Aye when balls are played over the top the DC's are a bit too advanced. I didn't notice this too much the first half but its more visual this second half.
Luckily Batista wasn't too much of a problem in the end, but on another day he could have been what cost you a game.
What I saw from you was very good but it just needs the minor tweaks I mentioned above. Theres no doubt you look good in parts, but at times because of how attacking you are set out its having a negative effect in areas. This isn't me slagging your tactic off either as it looks really good, its just a few things I noticed.
Hope this feedback helps you. I'll watch one of the other games in a while
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