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I love to understand and see how teams perform both defensively and specially attacking wise.
I kind of noticed since the Owen, RVN, Shearer, Gudjhonson, Bergkamp, Fowler era ended either because of long prone injuries or a transfer to another foreign club or even retirement all the big four teams were effected by this trend of attacking play and none of the managers seem to see why these important goals were not coming.
These were players that made decisive attacking runs, held the ball up, brought attacking midfielders and other attackers into the last 3rd of the field. But the season 07/08 we never saw that kind of a player and it got me thinking why the big four found it so much more difficult to win against lower down the table teams.
I noticed that the big four didn't play down the flanks a lot more because there wasn't that box area player, someone in the right place at the right time and it meant teams had to look for that vital pass around the middle of the last third of the field. Even Barcelona didn't have a player like this and maybe that's why they struggled more in there division, Barcelona were another team looking for Messi to hit that right pass.
Look at how Real Madrid ran away with the league, they had RVN (30 goals) that can get poached goals in the area and they had players that can find that crucial pass.
The reason why i am saying the big four teams found it so difficult to break teams down, because i think the other teams understood that all the big four didn't have that box player to provide those simple but crucial goals when the crosses came in or a player to make runs to bring in other players into attack. What the opponent teams did was play 4 defenders, 5 midfielders, and 1 attacker. These teams new that all the big four teams were doing is just simply trying to find that crucial pass or try to walk the ball into the net (like arsenal). And when worse came to worse all the big four either went for the 30 yard attempt (like Liverpool) or they simply tried to get the ball down the flanks more and get crosses in or even get that vital corner which proved vital for Chelsea and Man Utd who got very important goals to either get a win or a draw.
Maybe now Fergy is looking to add a lot more options upfront because of this and i think this will show the other top three teams that Fergy will again be one step ahead than the other teams this season.
I have always said the more versatility you have up front the more confusion you can cause against your opponent. If your up against great defenders it will be much more difficult but against the teams lower down the table i think Fergy is going to get it right this time.
Again, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal do not have this player that can hold the ball up bring other players into attack and be that box player. We now have Berbatov, he is a player who can hold the ball up bring other players into the final third of the field, but a box player i am not sure. But Berbatov is a player that can bring so many different trends into attack and i think this will win us the EPL again and the UCL.
I still wished we had RVN because he was a player that would get you 30 goals a season. A player who is not afraid to try again even if his first 3 attempts hit the corner flag.
Maybe if we got Ashton as a backup, it could have been a great buy as Ashton is that box player, hold up player.
But we will have to wait and see if Berbatov will be that kind of a player.
What do you think?
Is Fergy again one step ahead?
With this team will we win the EPL and UCL?
Is Berbatov an option just to help get the better of the smaller teams?
Will other teams be able to cope with Uniteds new tactics?
I kind of noticed since the Owen, RVN, Shearer, Gudjhonson, Bergkamp, Fowler era ended either because of long prone injuries or a transfer to another foreign club or even retirement all the big four teams were effected by this trend of attacking play and none of the managers seem to see why these important goals were not coming.
These were players that made decisive attacking runs, held the ball up, brought attacking midfielders and other attackers into the last 3rd of the field. But the season 07/08 we never saw that kind of a player and it got me thinking why the big four found it so much more difficult to win against lower down the table teams.
I noticed that the big four didn't play down the flanks a lot more because there wasn't that box area player, someone in the right place at the right time and it meant teams had to look for that vital pass around the middle of the last third of the field. Even Barcelona didn't have a player like this and maybe that's why they struggled more in there division, Barcelona were another team looking for Messi to hit that right pass.
Look at how Real Madrid ran away with the league, they had RVN (30 goals) that can get poached goals in the area and they had players that can find that crucial pass.
The reason why i am saying the big four teams found it so difficult to break teams down, because i think the other teams understood that all the big four didn't have that box player to provide those simple but crucial goals when the crosses came in or a player to make runs to bring in other players into attack. What the opponent teams did was play 4 defenders, 5 midfielders, and 1 attacker. These teams new that all the big four teams were doing is just simply trying to find that crucial pass or try to walk the ball into the net (like arsenal). And when worse came to worse all the big four either went for the 30 yard attempt (like Liverpool) or they simply tried to get the ball down the flanks more and get crosses in or even get that vital corner which proved vital for Chelsea and Man Utd who got very important goals to either get a win or a draw.
Maybe now Fergy is looking to add a lot more options upfront because of this and i think this will show the other top three teams that Fergy will again be one step ahead than the other teams this season.
I have always said the more versatility you have up front the more confusion you can cause against your opponent. If your up against great defenders it will be much more difficult but against the teams lower down the table i think Fergy is going to get it right this time.
Again, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal do not have this player that can hold the ball up bring other players into attack and be that box player. We now have Berbatov, he is a player who can hold the ball up bring other players into the final third of the field, but a box player i am not sure. But Berbatov is a player that can bring so many different trends into attack and i think this will win us the EPL again and the UCL.
I still wished we had RVN because he was a player that would get you 30 goals a season. A player who is not afraid to try again even if his first 3 attempts hit the corner flag.
Maybe if we got Ashton as a backup, it could have been a great buy as Ashton is that box player, hold up player.
But we will have to wait and see if Berbatov will be that kind of a player.
What do you think?
Is Fergy again one step ahead?
With this team will we win the EPL and UCL?
Is Berbatov an option just to help get the better of the smaller teams?
Will other teams be able to cope with Uniteds new tactics?