Bluemoon Tactics

Maybe time to resurrect this thread.

Pep seems intent on sticking by his tactics despite many thinking it's not currently working. This may well work out eventually, given he's the best manager on the planet.

However, would be interesting to know what tactics would you adopt, even as a temporary measure, to kick start our season..

I'd like to see us use more pace down the wings and during attacks in general, with a real focus on getting as many balls through to Haaland as quickly and as often as possible, many defenders have stopped man marking him in recent months due to our reduced attacking prowess. Also , improving our set piece setups, especially corners.

So what do you think is needed?
 
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Moss Side's Finest said:
Maybe time to resurrect this thread.

Pep seems intent on sticking by his tactics despite many thinking it's not currently working. This may well work out eventually, given he's the best manager on the planet.

However, would be interesting to know what tactics would you adopt, even as a temporary measure, to kick start our season..

I'd like to see us use more pace down the wings and during attacks in general, with a real focus on getting as many balls through to Haaland as quickly and as often as possible, many defenders have stopped man marking him in recent months due to our reduced attacking prowess. Also , improving our set piece setups, especially corners.

So what do you think is needed?
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Mancini :)
 
4-4-2 with players who can break wide as wingers playing the two wide midfield positions.

We need to be more difficult to play through, and 3-2-2-3 isn’t cutting it.

Also, we need to cut out the high pressing. We don’t have the personnel with the legs to do it and finish a game, so just drop the press to the center circle, not the box. This allows us to compress the field and defend in greater numbers, too.

Additionally, we have to revert to Route One every now and again. Haaland loves nothing more, and terrorizes defenders, when he gets a through ball or one over the top.

Funnily enough, I’d rather not get throw ins, because we ALWAYS give the ball away. Either work on a few variations or simply throw it to the oppositions LEAST dangerous player versus giving it away in our own half!

Lastly, if we are going to invert a FB, it needs to be to create a 3-3-4 overload, not a 3-2-5 overload. If Lewis is going to invert from RB, he needs to slot into the RM position to release the RM to the wing, rather than letting Gundo slide forward into the 10, because he simply doesn’t have the speed of feet on the ball to not cough it up or ability to get back goalside when he loses it on the edge of their box. Has cost us mightily and left us one on one at the back with defenders who don’t know how to tackle or (with one exception) block a shot!
 
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Our tactics rely on high levels of energy and fitness which we simply don’t have at the moment. It used to be our opponents who were dead on their feet for the last twenty minutes - now it’s us. We can’t press to win the ball back for more than a five minute period in any game. The opposition can press us high up the pitch and, if we manage to retain possession, they still have time to get ten men back behind the ball because we move the ball so slowly. So we either change tactics, bring in the youngsters who do have the fitness and energy or sit tight and wait for the injured and semi-fit to recover. But they’re not going to recover from advancing years which are catching up with so many all at once.
 
A good start would be to play the wingers on their correct side (Pep says that he leaves that up to them, but I doubt that is true). The current stance of playing them on their "weaker" side, just leads to constant cutting back inside and it's so fucking predictable and clearly easy to defend against. Watching right footed Grealish/ left footed Silva/ right footed Doku cut back, looking to whip the ball into the far post, rather than taking their fullback on and cutting the ball back, is a real frustration, for me at least.
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
Maybe time to resurrect this thread.

Pep seems intent on sticking by his tactics despite many thinking it's not currently working. This may well work out eventually, given he's the best manager on the planet.

However, would be interesting to know what tactics would you adopt, even as a temporary measure, to kick start our season..

I'd like to see us use more pace down the wings and during attacks in general, with a real focus on getting as many balls through to Haaland as quickly and as often as possible, many defenders have stopped man marking him in recent months due to our reduced attacking prowess. Also , improving our set piece setups, especially corners.

So what do you think is needed?
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Andy Morrison
 
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