For a few seasons now I've been arguing that it's ok playing across the back and that it's good to see we're comfortable on the ball, receiving it in tight spaces and playing it out from the back, but there is a time when we do come predictable with it for anyone who has watched and a team that presses with intensity as Luton did last night will always give us problems and when they do it seems our only plan B option is to hoof it. There must be another way and we need to find that variation that means we remain playing the ball without always reverting to type.
Yes there is another way:
If the opposition press high then they leave gaps in the midfield for a runner to drive direct at the defence.
It’s the classic long ball to big man, knock down and nippy skilful striker runs through.
See our winner against Forest.
We need a pacy striker / AM on the bench // pitch to do this.
If the opposition know that they are at risk of a counter then they won’t press as high.
When Gyok went off we had the physicality of one of Cap’n Birdseye’s mushed up f-in fish fingers.
