Not wishing to compliment the forwards of that lot, but when they were pressing us yesterday, at times, there were five or six of them putting us under pressure.We'd limit the chances teams have against us by being able to keep the ball and keeping the ball further from our goal.
When you've got Johnson, who isn't the best technically or Werner who again likes to beat his man and waste a chance or Son up to who can't hold the ball up, the ball is always going to come back towards us and because we play high, teams can counter.
Watch Woolwich and City. They're as high as us. But they're offence is a lot more comfortable in possession and usually limit their opponents chances because of it. Every now and then, a ball over the top will cause those teams problems but it's alot less over the course of 90 minutes than ours.
The better our attackers, the more fear our opponents have, the more chances we'd create, the less chances we'd concede.
Our front three has been a problem all season. Probably just as much as set pieces over the course tbh.
We had Son running around a lot trying to cover everyone.
Poor coaching? Lazy players? Incapable players? Doubt it’s the last one, as it doesn’t take extreme levels of talent to run towards the oppo player who has the ball.