Throw Ins

[badmash]

Anyone else notice how long it takes us to take a throw in?

I was watching Bayern the other night and as soon as the ball goes out they were throwing it back in and on the attack.

Clichy and Sagna seem to wait for the opposition to mark all our players before taking one.

We could be winning or losing it doesn't matter they still take an absolute age taking it.

 

[KDBestplayerintheworld]

Maybe they are genuinely clueless where to throw it ...

 

[MCFC1993]

All comes down to movement, throw ins have been one of my gripes with City for at least a couple of years. I actually spotted it last night, PSG had 4 players moving for the ball on a throwing, for one of our throwing's not one player tried to get open.

Lots of teams see a throw in as just another pass but for us it almost seems like a 50/50 challenge.

 

[Citysmith]

I noticed this during the game at Anfield. Liverpool were winning the ball at their throw ins and ultimately winning the ball on our throw ins. They squeezed us and hurried us into losing the ball and our lack of movement and speed of thought left us susceptible.

 

[Hart of the Matter]

We have to make sure out team is 'set' before we take a throw in. This rigidity has stifled us in many ways, prevents intuitive countering football....

 

[Bayblue]

Read in the Pep confidential book (and was supposed at the time) that he does a lot of throw in drills. Maybe one to watch for next season

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Read in the Pep confidential book (and was supposed at the time) that he does a lot of throw in drills. Maybe one to watch for next season

Yeah,quick one into the box "Bosch"...goal
The Chuck will be Key,with these drills;)

 

[blumanchu]

was notable in the leicester h game the number of times schmeichel kicked it into touch and leicester promptly regained possession from our resulting throw

 

[Phil1]

We've been awful at throwings for as long as I remember. Both taking them and defending them. I mean literally useless.

 

[ultimateharold]

Problem is, it seems no one except the full backs are apparently allowed to take them, regardless.

So times we could've gained an advantage (Sterling is good at quickly finding space on throws) by having the nearest player take it, they inevitably wait for Zabs/Sagna/Clichy or Kola to trot up the pitch to take it.

 

[City & Blue Brazil]

Hoping that the arrival of pep and his apparent willingness to look at the small things like throw ins , free kicks and corners will make a big difference next season . We are so poor at dead balls and in tight games they can be the difference.

 

[Goater=Legend]

We were like this under Mancini. The players are just stood around and don't move quick enough.

That moment when Zlatan went down, we kicked it out and then tried throwing it back in only for us to give them the ball back straight away.

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[Deleted member 58678]

We obviously don't work on it. Some teams are unbelievable in getting the ball back into play. In the Bayern v Juve game even the ball boys were right on it, sprinting to get the ball back to the player and then the ball was back on the pitch in a second.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

We obviously don't work on it. Some teams are unbelievable in getting the ball back into play. In the Bayern v Juve game even the ball boys were right on it, sprinting to get the ball back to the player and then the ball was back on the pitch in a second.

This is the thing. Every time I say our ball boys need to do more (because small details make a difference), people get all uppity and say "they're only kids" etc. I'm not criticising them, I'm criticising the management. We ought to get the ball boys into the CFA during training and do some drills, players and ball boys together. But of course we never will, cause we can't be arsed with being a professional, well-trained outfit on the field. These things matter. The elite teams leave nothing to chance whereas we leave practically everything to chance. Sometimes the stars align, but mostly they don't.