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Another thing that we need to sort out is to effectively maintain/distribute our fitness level throughout the match. We took risk by playing the majority of the first half in a very high tempo but then quickly became tired in the end of the first half and let Maccabi fought back strongly. Had we not got the (a bit lucky) goal of Camo, we would have had a much more difficult second half.
that is a very good point. wasting your stamina with a very high tempo in the first half is not the best way of using your power. firstly the opponent will notice the high tempo and adjust to that (and possibly put 10 men behind the ball) to defend until we get tired. then when we take the foot from the gas they will know it is the right time to punish us and will be even more motivated because they know we are tired and punishable.
the best thing would be, that we only increase the speed in small bursts, so the opponent can not really adjust to that, because if he puts 10 men behind the ball we might just play it slow through the defense and they will get no chance to see the ball (without leaving there defensive wall). the thing is, that this is really hard to achieve because there has to be a leader on the pitch that does decide when to increase the speed and even more difficult is, that the other players need to see that and increase they speed of making runs too to further surprise the opponent.
but that is just a theory ... i really did never see such things in perfection by any team, so you can just try to achieve a better distribution of the power/stamina without stupid non-stop running in the first half.
I only saw the first half...i am interested to know what others thought of Caceres???
the problem is, that caceres was not really tested much, so you can not really judge his defensive qualities. given the weak defensive showing of the whole defensive department when he played earlier this season it might have been exaggerated what we said about his bad positioning or the truth will be anywhere between "just good enough" and "disastrous" positioning wise. i do not like to say it, but grygera has better positioning.
let's watch caceres from now on, when we play against other teams that actually have a player that comes over his side.
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, les girondins will be swiftly defeated everything is pointing to their demise from our lack of form to their now defunct underdog status
Yes that would be perfect (I should have rep you for that good point but couldn't because I already repped you for the stream link ;-) ). I remember that our old Juve was able to do that at times in the mid 90s. One example is the CL final against Ajax. We really did surprise them with the type of pressing we played. Oh I miss Deschamps!
