This. I’d love to see stats on how many times the ball ends up back with the centre backs during a phase of play. Pretty sure we would be top!One (of many) things that frustrated me about our performance l against Southampton was how bleeding obvious our approach was. It was basically this...
1. Get the ball back to the defence
2. Pass the ball all the way across the back
3. Full back then jabs the ball up to a winger
4. If winger reaches the ball first, flick it somewhere.
At step 4, we more than often lost the ball. Approach then was to win it back and begin the steps again.
I just could not see how it was going to ever give us a good chance on goal. We were entirely predictable and one dimensional.