View image in fullscreen Divock Origi scores the fourth Liverpool goal against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final at Anfield. That lurch towards attacking play seems ripe for recalibration. Even Liverpool established their commanding lead at the top of the Premier league despite keeping only two clean sheets in their first 16 games of the season. Attacking is the modish way to play but it has been aided by a general downturn in the quality of defending. Barcelona are only the most obvious example, their 4-0 defeat at Anfield this year following the pattern established by heavy defeats by Paris Saint-German and Juventus in 2017 and Roma in 2018. The other effect of the game’s growing financial imbalance is the way so many top sides, unpractised in defending, capitulate against sides who actually attack them. Football’s economics have changed and teams have come to accept their status and play within their means. It is an oft-cited statistic but it remains striking: between 2003-06, the first three seasons for which there is data, Opta recorded three instances of Premier League games in which one team had 70% or more of the ball. ![]() That is the flip side of the fluent attacking of the best sides as the gulf in resources between the superclubs and the rest has grown wider and wider, so sitting deep and looking merely to hold on has become an increasingly common form of resistance. One of the reasons José Mourinho left Manchester United a year ago was because his refusal to press seemed symptomatic of somebody whom the game had passed by, yet the biggest doubt about his replacement, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, is that he too is fundamentally a counterattacker who struggles with what has come to seem to be the defining quality of the best modern coaches: their ability to organise an attack so that they can interact quickly enough to break down compact defences that sit deep against them. So universal do those traits seem to have become at the highest level of the game that teams who don’t play in that way appear almost old-fashioned. It is high tempo, hard-pressing football with a fluid front three and extremely attacking full-backs. It is that their football feels a distillation of the modern game. It is not just that they are European and world champions, or that they are well set to win the Premier League for the first time since 1990. Ken B.This year has been all about Liverpool. More information at the Board Game Geek website Products that other customers purchased when purchasing this item.Īpples to Apples: Crate Edition Expansion # 1Ĭustomer Raves - Write your own Rave about this game! (Click on a person's name or game group to see other raves by the same person or group. Soccer Tactics WORLD is pure soccer emotion! And don't be caught off-side! Play a full 90 minutes (or set your own time). Free kicks, goal kicks, corner kicks and penalty kicks. There are short and long passes, and offensive and defensive strategies. But watch out: yellow and red cards can be handed out. ![]() This game includes dribbling, passing and capturing the ball and intense battles for ball control. Eleven players per team on a traditional full-length field. ![]() ![]() Soccer Tactics WORLD combines the strategy of soccer with the heart of the game. When and if it becomes available, we'll update the availability message accordingly. Rio Grande / Stein-Thompson Visit their site
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