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Interesting stuff, the bit about defending was quite educational for me - I'd noticed during games that Bennett especially would wander into positions far from the left back area and assumed it was part of a man marking job, but there was more to it than that it seems.
I'm not as convinced about the attacking side of things though. The plan apparently was to "give the trio (Zohore, Holiett and Mendez-Laing) as much time against a disorganised, retreating defence as possible. So rather than aimless balls upfield, it's getting the ball into the feet of those danger men and letting them cause havoc in the channels."
We may have done that in the first couple of months of the season, but it happened less and less as the campaign went on and any criticism directed at Zohore in particular has to be tempered by the fact that he got so few passes of the sort which enables him to show the parts of his game that really causes defences problems after he returned from injury.
I know we got promoted and so it would be easy to just say everything worked fine, but more and more as the season went on, the three attacking players were not fed the sort of passes talked about in the article and, in the case of Zohore, that goal they highlight against Sunderland where Ralls was able to get forward to give him the passing options he needed, was very much a rarity - too often Zohore, and Madine, were in splendid isolation as they tried to make something of balls whacked towards their heads, not their feet.
Originally Posted by Llanedeyrnblue
