Teams seem to stand off us even more now whe we play out from Ederson. In both games I barely remember any time when at a goal kick we were put under pressure and then played our way through the opposition.
Even in the Mancini and pellegrini years we needed to almost take the piss in our final third, long enough to draw the other team out. We seem to have totally stopped doing this there and instead do it in the oppositions final third, which against 5-5-0 is pointless.
We need to do it for minute after minute until the opposition get frustrated. Even a team set up to defend for 95 minutes will get frustrated pretty quickly if the ball doesn’t cross the half way line for 5.