DiamondGooner wrote:realtalk wrote:We need to figure out this 3 at back bullshit is causing problems. Managers will play this against us no doubt. These guys went 3-5-2 on us and got every second and loose ball without fail. These 3-4/5 formations. Makes the likes of average passers like wanyama,kante,matic time and space to build. No pressure was on wanyama most of the game plus with extra bodies he had passing angles. Shit was annoying. Its pissing me of this formation.
You just have to be patient with it, its made for countering if a team goes hard at them, we were taking the right approach 1st half, by playing our game but not over reaching ourselves.
I think the only thing that was missing is our usual quick tempo give and go passing from our starting line up which was disappointing.
They werent using it for counter they just used it for territorial gain, attacking and to nullify us. They didn't come to play counter. These f***ers tried it . We were the ones countering. Fully abused ozil shit defensive know how. Also are full backs not actually going like for like screwed us. Poch got us good. Xhak and coq had to sit because they are average offensively and couldn't risk turnover ,leaving space as they were out numbered regularly. We also did not abuse them on the wings with switch plays. Our offsides count was very high. We need to work on timing runs. Had we got a few balls over the top accurately we would of played our normal game. But we just caught too many offsides.Essentially we didn't use what xhaka was bought for.
The sub's made the game offensive but it was just pendulum swinging stuff. That was the high risk needed to break the game and formations. I'm not mad at the draw it was that or 1 goal win margin. I'm mad at not dealing with 3-5-2.We did not adapt and change the way we played to force them to change formation. That's my peeve. 3 at the back needs punishment with balls over the top f***ing find it an insult. Maybe thats just the Saturday match day wing forward in me talking. But 3 at the back feels like mockery to me. Have to bring back long ball footy.
I'm putting bounty on these 3 at the back bullshit.Needs to die.