Total football or not, we used to choke teams out by playing two mids just in front of a tight back four.
This has completely disappeared in the space of half a season.
Gates are open for all to wander through now.
Funnily enough, we still play that formation, and yet look what's happened?
Yeah sorry my point being, how has it disappeared? Players encouraged to get forward not tracking back? Laziness? Legs too slow now? Defenders charging out of the line for at times no reason? This is off the ball stuff so not much to do with possession that's gone.
I do think they are quite lazy. Once the ball is lost there is very little effort to get it back most of the time.
A thousand things going wrong at the moment but that ain't good enough. So frustrating! Where's the intensity? Heads went down pretty quick tonight. Big problems, so far beyond me to get it back from here.
On the plus side, I have next monday off so can get good and proper messy sunday arvo. Boom!