Originally Posted by
Red Zone
The obsession of playing from the back is one of my (many) gripes about modern football. Maybe if you are Barcelona you can get away with it but for the vast majority of teams the least skilled footballers are defenders so why on earth would you want them to be knocking the ball about in their own half like they are Iniesta, just asking for trouble like you saw yesterday with Devlin and others to be fair. You even see it every week in the worlds greatest league.
With regard to us, even if we had the players with the skill to safely and confidently knock it about in our own half (which we don't), what is the purpose of that anyway? What is the plan? The theory I guess is that knock it about in your own half and eventually play it through the midfield and forward to the strikers to hopefully create chances and score goals from open play (remember them?). However all we seem to do is knock it across the defense a few times, assuming we don't lose possession in doing so, and then a defender punts it long either for Cosgrove to waste, May to chase a lost cause or GMS to watch the ball drift out for a goal kick. If that's all we are going to do why not just punt it first time and cut out the risk of a misplaced pass by a defender????
Of course a real radical idea would be to actually sign a midfielder that can play football and be comfortable with the ball at his feet who can take the ball from the defence and create something instead of just playing defensive midfielders who don't have the first idea about creating anything. Just a thought but no doubt I am probably missing a strategic masterstroke in our current style of play.
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