One factor I seen within the Southampton win final night time was that we have been getting essentially the most pleasure by way of attacking play when Filip Jorgensen lobbed a brief move ahead or hit a floor move via to Pedro Neto, relatively than passing it forwards and backwards to Enzo Fernandez hoping that we might squeeze a move via the press.
In fact, while you play via a excessive press it could possibly have excessive rewards. But additionally, in the event you don’t play via it, and you’re enjoying towards good attackers and a well-drilled press, you’re at actual danger of conceding a giant likelihood 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 usually, nevertheless it does put us below immense stress and in danger.
I truly felt sorry for Filip Jorgensen final night time. He had simply made a giant mistake to lose us the sport towards Aston Villa on the weekend, you would see he was feeling the stress. And enjoying out from the again towards Southampton he was a nervous wreck. The group felt it, his crew mates felt it, everybody felt and noticed it. It was removed from 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 most important concern was that Saints have been man-marking, so there wasn’t the accessible choices for Jorgensen to move to. So enjoying out from the again and making an attempt to play via the press was what we needed to attempt to do. However was it? Or is that this simply the one means that Maresca needs us to play? Sadly, it sounds just like the latter.
Maresca mentioned on Jorgensen getting jeered by followers when kicking brief out from the again:
“My message to Filip was in the event you play an extended ball, I’ll change you, I’m very glad. It’s troublesome for all of the keepers [when that happens] however they only have to observe the plan.”
I truly can not imagine what I’m studying right here. He’s forcing his goalkeeper to ALWAYS play brief. Why? Why can’t you turn it up generally? Why does it all the time need to be this manner? I really don’t perceive it. I get you’ve got a mode of play and means of enjoying the sport, however why so cussed to it? I get that is the trendy means of enjoying. However why not have the ability to swap issues up below 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 techniques and lack of pragmatism. I feel any modern-day supervisor to succeed on the high stage 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 the right way to play towards it. Enjoying out from the again will not be one thing I’m towards in any respect and see the professionals, however among the greatest groups now are extra hybrid with this and can search for passes additional ahead if they’re on. Some even use the extra quaint means of getting a goal man, think about that?
I’ll return to my first sentence, Chelsea acquired 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 move a bit additional ahead, clearly towards the orders of his supervisor who threatened to sub him off if he stored 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 a superb focus in Pedro Neto, who’s surprisingly sturdy and good holding the ball up. Jorgensen might 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 via resulting from 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, they usually labored fairly effectively largely as effectively. Even the commentators final night time might 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 brief? I truthfully don’t perceive it. Be numerous, swap it up, trump your opponents, adapt to how they’re setup. It’s all frequent sense, no?
Why stick with a means 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 have been getting nearer and nearer to nipping in and successful the ball again. We acquired useless fortunate there. Towards a greater opposition, we might have been severely punished doing that.
I’m not some old style ‘route one’ smash it ahead form 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 brief passing will not be working. Why would you even need to play so predictable ALL the time?
However sadly our supervisor is caught with a method and a method solely. Bookmark this text, as a result of this manner of cussed pondering goes to come back again to hang-out us quickly. I admit once we can play via a press then it really works effectively, however do now we have the standard goalkeepers and centre backs to have the ability to do that proper now? No, we completely don’t.
