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TeaCider's Summer Transfer Thread 2022 - AKA: Still Going For Just a Little Luongo


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8 hours ago, LinoJo3 said:

I always wondered like if our cbs are so bad at over lapping, why not just tell them to sit in the midfield and let the midfielder over lap.

You've just invented "Linoball"!

I reckon it would work for a season or two before getting found out and every opposition Manager countered it nulling it's effectiveness.

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11 hours ago, LinoJo3 said:

I always wondered like if our cbs are so bad at over lapping, why not just tell them to sit in the midfield and let the midfielder over lap.

The way I see it, in the standard 3-5-2 we've employed in the past, our midfielders do overlap/underlap. They seemed to play a kind of triangle between the 3, the wide centre-mid, the wide centre-back and the wing-back. You'd have Tav either over or underlapping on one side and Crooksy doing it the other side. You see it against Sheffield United this season with our first goal kind of, that intention to play it wide and try and form an angle to get in behind that eventually comes from Jones' underlapping run and McNair's ball from wide on the right.

The problem we've had recently offensively is that our movement and the pass has been awful. Breaking down with simple passes out of defence. And McNair when he's been in the team on that right-side has felt like he's had much less intention to break into the middle of the pitch and beyond, perhaps because he simply isn't athletic enough to cover behind him. And of course in the past when he was playing well at LCB, he was on the side with Tav who had bags of energy and busted a gut to get back every time we lost the ball. We sacrificed so much letting Tav go, it's mad just how much it's affected our team simply through his ability to take risks but recover from them.

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1 hour ago, wilsoncgp said:

The way I see it, in the standard 3-5-2 we've employed in the past, our midfielders do overlap/underlap. They seemed to play a kind of triangle between the 3, the wide centre-mid, the wide centre-back and the wing-back. You'd have Tav either over or underlapping on one side and Crooksy doing it the other side. You see it against Sheffield United this season with our first goal kind of, that intention to play it wide and try and form an angle to get in behind that eventually comes from Jones' underlapping run and McNair's ball from wide on the right.

The problem we've had recently offensively is that our movement and the pass has been awful. Breaking down with simple passes out of defence. And McNair when he's been in the team on that right-side has felt like he's had much less intention to break into the middle of the pitch and beyond, perhaps because he simply isn't athletic enough to cover behind him. And of course in the past when he was playing well at LCB, he was on the side with Tav who had bags of energy and busted a gut to get back every time we lost the ball. We sacrificed so much letting Tav go, it's mad just how much it's affected our team simply through his ability to take risks but recover from them.

I think that too, but also know these problems started with tav on the books also last season

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