Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
This.

To call Liverpool a long-ball team just because they have excellent ball players and one of the best players in the world making runs on the right hand side is ridiculous. If we could do that I'd take "long ball" all day, every day. When we have played long ball in the past it was all about lumping it upfield and hoping for a decent outcome. I don't understand why people complain about playing out from the back. Why would you not do that? You pass to one of your own players and then have them do the same. OK, sometimes it breaks down but surely it's better than a 50/50 big boot which if it gets on the head of a defender ends up back at the halfway line anyway.

I'd love it if we could do it with any conviction. But we can't along with half the championship. Its all a bit fake to me, we are pretending to be a "progressive" team. The question is I can see what Citeh and Liverpool are doing, what are we trying to do?
The championship is a heavily analyzed league, they all are, but it is system over individuality as it is so close.

After 10 games teams sussed us and thats it, no response. No need to press, just a low block and wait for us to pass it around the back 3 (no one trusts Coliins) and one of the sitters drops, just wait for them to get impatient and lose it.

We couldn't go route one properly if we wanted, maybe we'll have that option from tomorrow (fingers crossed) then the opposition have to defend deeper as the good old fashioned flick on is a weapon but so is the 9 holding onto it, and giving it to the 10 with a bit of space. Anyway, it will give the defenders a bit more space to do something with the ball as teams have to plan for the long kick or the short ball, at the moment we are so boringly predictable.