[ITA] Serie A 2013/2014 (30 Viewers)
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so lucky.
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Obvious a poor game, but noticing a development in how teams playing a back three are looking to deal with teams playing 4-2-3-1 (or similar).
I've always felt it made for an awkward match-up for the team playing with the back three because I felt they ended up with one defender too many and that forced them very deep and made it hard to keep possession and get up the pitch.
To overcome that issue, I'm seeing teams starting to use one of the centre-backs to mark the trequartista, where it would have been the responsibility of a midfielder before. This at least means that the team playing with a back three are defending with the right number of people and therefore stand a chance of competing in other areas of the pitch.
Bologna did it tonight marking Kaka - Perez only played Kaka when Kaka dropped very deep into midfield and it would have dragged a defender a long way out of position.
Lazio did something similar against Napoli and Hamsik in their Coppa game and I thought that worked very well. Their central centre-back held position and one of the side centre-backs would mark Hamsik depending on which side of the pitch he was on. They were more extreme in how they did it in that it was real man-marking with Hamsik basically always having a cente-back tight to him no matter how deep he dropped.
Juve have tried to do something similar with Chiellini occasionally, but have never seemed to properly commit to that plan in the way that I've seen Bologna and Lazio do.
I've always felt it made for an awkward match-up for the team playing with the back three because I felt they ended up with one defender too many and that forced them very deep and made it hard to keep possession and get up the pitch.
To overcome that issue, I'm seeing teams starting to use one of the centre-backs to mark the trequartista, where it would have been the responsibility of a midfielder before. This at least means that the team playing with a back three are defending with the right number of people and therefore stand a chance of competing in other areas of the pitch.
Bologna did it tonight marking Kaka - Perez only played Kaka when Kaka dropped very deep into midfield and it would have dragged a defender a long way out of position.
Lazio did something similar against Napoli and Hamsik in their Coppa game and I thought that worked very well. Their central centre-back held position and one of the side centre-backs would mark Hamsik depending on which side of the pitch he was on. They were more extreme in how they did it in that it was real man-marking with Hamsik basically always having a cente-back tight to him no matter how deep he dropped.
Juve have tried to do something similar with Chiellini occasionally, but have never seemed to properly commit to that plan in the way that I've seen Bologna and Lazio do.
