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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: One Foot in the Grave on December 28, 2018, 05:01:25 PM
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Tony Cascarino, on the Southampton v West Ham game in today's Times :
"One curiosity was how little either goalkeeper rolled the ball out to their full backs. Both kicked it long every time You're talking about one sophisticated manager who won the Premier League with Manchester City, and another who favoured a high-intensity strategy at Red Bull Leipzig. Yet their reasoning was clear. It was recognition that playing the ball out from defence is a risk; that you're unlikely to get through a whole match without giving something away."
I see the point but don't totally agree - we work really well when the keeper feeds it to a defender and we set off a rapid forward movement. What frightens me to death is our tendency to pass the ball across the edge of our own penalty area. We've been caught out a few times recently, but have largely got away with it. I'm worried that our luck will vanish at a crucial moment.