Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Confused about what? He's saying that dribling isn't something that becomes much easier when the opposition has two men less, but that passing around them most definitely is, and that it therefore would be stupid to try to drible more when the opposition has two red cards.
Well he said he didn’t watch the game, which is why I said I was confused as to the definiteness of his statement. Passing around players when they are a few players down is all well and good in theory. In actual fact what happens is most teams would sit back and compress into a compact formation barely venturing forward and forcing you to try to break them open with incisive passes. Which means you have to try to pull the defensive structure out of shape as much as possible to create good quality chances. This can be done via overloads on the wings, or driving at your man to force an extra player or two to commit and then picking out a free option.
All my man Ryan Fraser did was camp outside the box for 90 minutes hooking crosses in.
Now were some of the crosses accurate? No doubt about it, but the defence gave them that much room because they would not commit to closing down crosses. Even Cech would have been able to put a few good balls in with the lack of pressure on the ball at that stage. So what do you do? Continue and hope you get a corner and the last one finally finds a target in the 90th minute, or try to beat your man and see if you can create more room and higher percentage chances?
