I watched Dortmund's game against Stuttgart on Friday. They looked surprisingly ordinary and besides their goals they only created a couple of other chances all game. Their defence wasn't really tested but looked less than solid.
Stuttgart played with a deep defensive line and allowed Dortmund time on the ball. The few mistakes their defence made allowed Dortmund to create scoring opportunities and Dortmund's attacking play looked speculative at best. There didn't seem to be any real cohesion or structure to their gameplan. They did press up high but once they had the ball they didn't appear to have too many bright ideas with what to do with possession. Absolutely bizarre to see a team full of such stars struggle so much all of a sudden.
It made me feel more confident. If we play the same deep line to neutralise Dortmund's game while also looking to probe their defence while we have possession I get the impression we can find holes in there. I still think our best bet would be to bench Llorente and Pirlo for Morata and Marchisio at DM but if we're playing those two then the gameplan has to be using Pirlo to play long balls to Llorente and have him try and be a focal point for building our attacks.
We can win this, but it will depend who turns up on the night for both teams.
Anybody want to see Stuttgart - BVB it's under the spoiler box.
Stuttgart played with a deep defensive line and allowed Dortmund time on the ball. The few mistakes their defence made allowed Dortmund to create scoring opportunities and Dortmund's attacking play looked speculative at best. There didn't seem to be any real cohesion or structure to their gameplan. They did press up high but once they had the ball they didn't appear to have too many bright ideas with what to do with possession. Absolutely bizarre to see a team full of such stars struggle so much all of a sudden.
It made me feel more confident. If we play the same deep line to neutralise Dortmund's game while also looking to probe their defence while we have possession I get the impression we can find holes in there. I still think our best bet would be to bench Llorente and Pirlo for Morata and Marchisio at DM but if we're playing those two then the gameplan has to be using Pirlo to play long balls to Llorente and have him try and be a focal point for building our attacks.
We can win this, but it will depend who turns up on the night for both teams.
Anybody want to see Stuttgart - BVB it's under the spoiler box.
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