City v arsenal

I agree KTF. I think we need to freshen it up and do something different now, because doing that against a compact and deep Burnley team and expecting a different result would be stupid.

Back 3 for me and very high full backs against Burnley.

comment by Keep_the_faith1 (U8129)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 4 minutes ago
Simple, play with a high press high intensity play.
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Thought we tried that second half but it just petered out when there was no final ball on. We were too narrow all game.
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On tactics, and I have noticed this with both Ricardo and Barnes at times, their standing position to receive the ball is way, way too high up the pitch at times for the types of players they are. They are cancelling the space out for themselves and the full backs behind them
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If you've got a high press and turn the ball over they're in the perfect position.

Losing Barnes long term could cost us Top Four now, he's the only one looking like creating anything or scoring on current form.

Vardy might get an odd penalty before the end of the Season and hopefully Maddison gets back to form quickly when he returns, that's about it as far as scoring goes.

"Surely this modern jargon simply means, play well, attempt to get the ball back and attack with quality and accuracy?

Are we suggesting Rodgers told them not to do that and what evidence (other than the players didn’t perform) do we have of that?"

Of course it doesn't, you must know the difference betwen a Team playing a high press and just sitting back letting the other team have 67% possession.

And of course he did, that was obvious, the players play how the Manager tells them, we've clearly played with a high press many times with Great success, Arteta apparently mentioned that's why we won the first game!

I’m not saying it is and I hope I’m wrong, but I do worry that’s the end of our season.

comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 20 minutes ago
"Surely this modern jargon simply means, play well, attempt to get the ball back and attack with quality and accuracy?

Are we suggesting Rodgers told them not to do that and what evidence (other than the players didn’t perform) do we have of that?"

Of course it doesn't, you must know the difference betwen a Team playing a high press and just sitting back letting the other team have 67% possession.

And of course he did, that was obvious, the players play how the Manager tells them, we've clearly played with a high press many times with Great success, Arteta apparently mentioned that's why we won the first game!
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I’m confused, you’re saying Rodgers told Ricardo and Barnes to play high but not to press?

No of course not, he told the team not to play with a High Press, that was his mistake.

comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 1 minute ago
No of course not, he told the team not to play with a High Press, that was his mistake.
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But if Barnes and Ricardo being static and high up, why did he instruct them to do that but not press?

We just didn’t play very well again

comment by Keep_the_faith1 (U8129)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 1 minute ago
No of course not, he told the team not to play with a High Press, that was his mistake.
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But if Barnes and Ricardo being static and high up, why did he instruct them to do that but not press?
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That's the question but it's obvious we weren't playing with a high press, he did a Jose and defended a one nil lead then the game got away from us.

I think the plan was to draw them in and hit them on the counter if we went ahead TB. Problem was we were utterly ineffective at it and we didn’t defend well enough either.

So we needed to get back on the front foot, which we did for all of 4 minutes in the second half before returning to slow, laboured and misplaced passes with no movement and no chance.