Centre Backs Balance

[AmericanRam]

You're back AR. Where you been?

A death in my family mate, was dealing with that and something else. I'm ok now. Thanks for asking. 

[The Scarlet Pimpernel]

Sorry to hear that fellah. Welcome back.

[Alph]

A death in my family mate, was dealing with that and something else. I'm ok now. Thanks for asking. 

Good to have you back fella.  Sorry to hear your news

[AmericanRam]

Good to have you back fella.  Sorry to hear your news

Thanks mate.

[cloughandtaylor]

 

Yeah, good article - what springs to mind is Occams Razor...........

[Sexydadbod]

A death in my family mate, was dealing with that and something else. I'm ok now. Thanks for asking. 

I'm sorry to hear about that.Hope you and your family are coping. Never nice to hear about deaths especially when they are associated with fellow fans.

[RamLad1884]

After the news about albentosa, it's looking increasingly strange at the back, now down to 3 fit centre halfs? Beginning to wonder if there is a cb on his way other than shackell that MM haa been keeping quiet

[RamNut]

Quite right. It's a relatively high risk footballing defence. Another poster analysed it spot on - our system pushes 2 centre backs relatively wide and so we need the CDM to drop to make a 3. Thorne was the master of this at the back end of the 2013-2014 season. When that doesn't happen the gaps are too great and everyone is playing scurry and catch-up.

we need to stop that tactic of splitting the centre backs.

we need to decide who is centre half and who is sweeper,

one attacks the ball, one has pace.

finally we need to be sure that the left side CB is comfortable on the left, and the right side CB should be comfortable on the right

it was interesting to read in roy macs biography that he was a left footed CB who preferred to play on the right, and that Bobby Moore was a right footed CB  who preferred to play on the left.

[Van der MoodHoover]

we need to stop that tactic of splitting the centre backs.

we need to decide who is centre half and who is sweeper,

one attacks the ball, one has pace.

finally we need to be sure that the left side CB is comfortable on the left, and the right side CB should be comfortable on the right

it was interesting to read in roy macs biography that he was a left footed CB who preferred to play on the right, and that Bobby Moore was a right footed CB  who preferred to play on the left.

In the 2013-2014 system, we seemed to have a sort of "drift" defence in that Fozzie would bomb on, but Wisdom stayed back and he plus Keogh and Buxton drifted across to make a kind of back 3.

Although the stats (goals conceded) say otherwise, that feels like a more balanced system than 2 go charging up, CBs split and one comes back.

[RamNut]

 

[lukedcfc]

The defending for that Watford goal was diabolical. Yeah the pass was good but if they had held there line the ball would never have been on or had chance to reach ighalo. Shotton was most at fault, what was he thinking.