Thank you, you kinda helped prove my point.
Even super offensive teams like City with Pep at the helm, who usually deploy midfielders as CBs, are winning lots of games with clean sheets. Its a bi-product of great football, where you are somewhat solid defensively, and lethal offensively. Sitting back a whole game with a deep defense, very rarely it works out over 90 minutes, its like playing russian roulette, just waiting for mistakes, deflections, penalties and shit to happen. Attack, and threatening your opponent is the best form of defense. This is football knowledge 101.If we cant agree on that, then Im happy to disagree.
Im against spending 95% of our focus on optimizing a defense with a goal of removing any tiny mistake in defensive manoeuvres (to grind out "clean sheets"), when our attack and control of a game is lacking equally as much. I believe that there are low-hanging fruits in every sector of our game and over optimizing in one area is a waste of resources at this point.