Quote Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa View Post
And meant they could continuously find open spaces. We should have gone man for man against them and pressed all over the pitch, or not at all. Pressing 2 or 3 against a competent side is worse than not pressing at all, as they'll beat that press easily and take those 3 out of the game.
Did we try to press them like that before the first goal? I missed the start of the game stuck in a big queue to get into the stadium. I'm wondering if the plan was to sit back and let them have the ball, but them scoring early forced us to do something different.