I don't think that is quite right, because they generally played a high defensive line. Perhaps they did not attack in numbers, but that's a slightly different matter.The second half Liverpool just sat deep
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I don't think that is quite right, because they generally played a high defensive line. Perhaps they did not attack in numbers, but that's a slightly different matter.The second half Liverpool just sat deep
I don't think that is quite right, because they generally played a high defensive line. Perhaps they did not attack in numbers, but that's a slightly different matter.
Could you put a time on it?I think their line definitely got deeper and deeper as the second half wore on
Could you put a time on it?
Goddammit. I've burnt my moules marinière. Put a time on it, you feckless cunt.45-95
Goddammit. I've burnt my moules marinière. Put a time on it, you feckless cunt.
Yeah? Well you know nothing about football, you pompous old celibate!You wouldn’t know a mariniere’d moule if it bit your cock you fucking fraud
'full back less' 3-5-2 formation.
There seems to be a lot made of the full back role in the modern game, so I thought about what would happen if a team didn't play any lol.
That formation would require:
two centre backs that are able to play / cover the full back position (vertonghen / alderweireld)
a defensive midfielder that could drop into the back three to create a back four as well as shield the centre backs (dier)
both the 4 and the 8 need to be good on the ball, contribute defensively and be able to transition defensive into attack, break pressing lines (winks / sissoko)
a number 10 that could drop back and add to the numbers in the middle of the field when the opposite has the ball (dele)
two, speedy 'wingers' that could cover the flanks, as a modern day full back is supposed to (son / moura)
a number 9 with decent hold up play, good on the ball (kane)
Also, Big flaw in your model, Sissoko (and Dier) are terrible in terms of transition (neither want the ball under pressure or play quick, incisive passes).
Can I ask where you got or did your diagram?
worked nicely with Ajax mid 90s - they had exactly the right players though...'full back less' 3-5-2 formation.
There seems to be a lot made of the full back role in the modern game, so I thought about what would happen if a team didn't play any lol.
That formation would require:
two centre backs that are able to play / cover the full back position (vertonghen / alderweireld)
a defensive midfielder that could drop into the back three to create a back four as well as shield the centre backs (dier)
both the 4 and the 8 need to be good on the ball, contribute defensively and be able to transition defensive into attack, break pressing lines (winks / sissoko)
a number 10 that could drop back and add to the numbers in the middle of the field when the opposite has the ball (dele)
two, speedy 'wingers' that could cover the flanks, as a modern day full back is supposed to (son / moura)
a number 9 with decent hold up play, good on the ball (kane)
you could argue that we have the right players, depending on lo celso for the number 4, transition role....worked nicely with Ajax mid 90s - they had exactly the right players though...
Only Man City had a higher XG (3.16) so far this weekend than us (2.57) (Liverpool 1.68) and nobody has a better XG against than the (0.64) we limited Villa to. and that was half our average per game for last season.
Surprised Liverpool was so low - I watched much of the game on a Friday and in the first half they were all over Norwich and the 4-0 at half time didn't flatter them. In the 2nd half Norwich were certainly better organised and trying to compete better and didn't give Liverpool time on the ball so Liverpool fluffed a number of decent chances in 2nd half.
Spurs seemed to be generally in control without doing anything to make it count pretty much until Eriksen came on, although we had looked better in 2nd half before he came on too.
And that is why stats can be so misleading.
The only thing that bothers me with team/ players stats is that they don't factor in the quality of the opposition or the quality of the league.No, it’s the other way round Stevee, x/g stats actually quallify not just quantify. They measure (based on analysis of100s of 1000s of events) the quality of chances not just the quantity and the likelihood that chances lead to a goal based on all the circumstances. And what they are saying is though we think Liverpool had lots of chances, the actually likelihood of them scoring from them wasn’t necessarily as good as the perception and we actually had better quality chances to score overall. With our naked eye we see chances and register pressure and emotion but we don't always separate those things and weigh it up clinically without separating the actual emotion from it. X/G does this.
The only thing that bothers me with team/ players stats is that they don't factor in the quality of the opposition or the quality of the league.