The only identifiable trademark of his system is for Locatelli to be the focal point of distribution and that he looks to make diagonal passes to the wingers in order for them to create chances. Also him dropping back into defence to make a 3 while the fullbacks push up.
Not a bad idea - Locatelli has the passing range for it. Our fullbacks then push up to help the wingers in case they are isolated. The issues are that FC7 doesn't get a lot of time these days and Gonzalez disappears. Yildiz is then left with all our hopes pinned on him and he gets swamped. We don't have the fullbacks for this system either.
We've been figured out: the solution is to press Locatelli to not allow him time on the ball and heavily mark Yildiz. This leaves all of our players improvising to try and play ball and then we're left without a system and then even bottom feeder Serie A teams can impose their game on us. It also leaves Locatelli without an option behind him a la Bonucci from Pirlo- because Locatelli is often in the defence.
The lack of plan B is terrifying. We're relying on moments of magic. Fortunately Kolo looks like a baller but the issue was never about not having enough magic in the squad its been about why are we so reliant on that kind of spark instead of imposing ourselves onto matches and creating winning opportunities as a team.
As long as we keep winning I don't really care so much, but it doesn't inspire confidence that we seem lucky whenever we win.
Not a bad idea - Locatelli has the passing range for it. Our fullbacks then push up to help the wingers in case they are isolated. The issues are that FC7 doesn't get a lot of time these days and Gonzalez disappears. Yildiz is then left with all our hopes pinned on him and he gets swamped. We don't have the fullbacks for this system either.
We've been figured out: the solution is to press Locatelli to not allow him time on the ball and heavily mark Yildiz. This leaves all of our players improvising to try and play ball and then we're left without a system and then even bottom feeder Serie A teams can impose their game on us. It also leaves Locatelli without an option behind him a la Bonucci from Pirlo- because Locatelli is often in the defence.
The lack of plan B is terrifying. We're relying on moments of magic. Fortunately Kolo looks like a baller but the issue was never about not having enough magic in the squad its been about why are we so reliant on that kind of spark instead of imposing ourselves onto matches and creating winning opportunities as a team.
As long as we keep winning I don't really care so much, but it doesn't inspire confidence that we seem lucky whenever we win.
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