You need to ask a proper professional coach about this. You would think that enough people are paid enough money to think about these things for it not to be a coincidence that everyone does it one way. But the possibility that you’ve single-handedly uncovered a flaw in professional football is a tantalising one.
The way I see it the ball is nearly always cleared even if not perfectly and if it falls in a dangerous area it is rushed by 2 or 3 players for the block or hoof out. Haji was good with his clearance headers last night, did quite a few.
At times tonight we packed as many as 10 players into our 6 yard box, conceding a goal in there from a corner anyway.
I appreciate I’m the ultimate broken record on this, but can someone explain what the thinking is here? Rushworth was prevented from coming for the ball because he was swamped and we looked very uncomfortable defending the set pieces. Few times we won the ball but had no out and it came straight back in.