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Originally Posted by monkey hanger
unfortunetly if he does play at the weekend he,ll be doing the same. its the way the management want us to play and its not a new thing by any means. there are plenty of ways to play football on all occasions. with our system the pitch is too wide open giving the opposition too much space to exploit our creaking midfield. prefer our defence to get higher up the pitch much quicker but then i have no badges to support this view just my eyes that see a greater number of teams doing this.
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I may be totally wrong but, as a tactic that seems recently to have been adopted by more and more teams, I suspect ‘playing out from the back’ started with teams at the top of their ‘pyramids’, who had the players with skill and speed, not to mention the playing surfaces, to be successful at it.
One slip, misplaced pass, or poor control against physical and fast forwards and if can end in tears. Also, if the opposition
know you will do this every time, they will harry the defenders before they get past their own penalty area. Pick and choose when to do it and the opposition won’t necessarily know whether to press or retreat at goal kicks.