Football at the highest level right now is about high, intense pressure, and then attacking quickly and decisively when you win it, whether that’s from forcing the error high up the pitch, or through counter attacking from deep. It’s about pace, intensity, pressure, dynamism, mobility.
We only have about 3 players in the squad that seem to enjoy the pressing side of the game (Foden, Jesus, KDB) so if fit, these 3 should be the first names on the team sheet, I don’t care what anyone says. When we don’t have all 3, we are relying solely on KDB to produce magic.
Our counter attacking is absolutely woeful, in almost every aspect. The pass selection, the execution,having the intelligent runs. We just seem clueless at it and consistently fuck up 3v2’s, 4v3’s etc.
Too often we get the ball back and it gets slowly passed side to side until eventually getting to the feet of Ederson and we start from there.
Pep needs to understand that possession stats don’t directly win games. We need more than that. If he can’t get that out of the players then he should leave. And before the end of the season if that is the case, since there’d be no point to anything.
He needs to be asked if he has the stomach for the rebuild and to either sign now or leave now.
