It’s certainly a consequence of how we play, but so is the amount of goals we’ve scored.
We must be the highest scoring team to ever finish in the bottom half of a table!
After the goal went in everyone around me was berating him for not just clearing it.
The problem is his decision making was right. Back to the keeper was the best option, he just slipped over. My argument is that if he should be emptying that ball whenever he’s in that situation, then we can’t play the football that we do.
This style of play has the same risk/reward at any level, and you see the same issues; defenders slipping, keepers gifting the ball etc.
Spurs and Villa are two teams to adopt this system. Both are playing out from the back with an extremely high line. Overall they’re playing great football and are reaping the rewards. However, when they get it wrong it looks awful. Spurs got hammered by Newcastle last Saturday and you’d have thought our back line was playing for them.
The problem we’ve got is we’re too soft out of possession. Mistakes constantly get punished as we just can’t recover from them.
The only answer I can see is we need better players. Simple as that!