You Gotta See This Thread: Utter Crap Edition
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I love it that not only does #7 miss the tap in, but he was off side when he received the pass.
Man-oh-man… so it’s true that at one time, the Premier League had players worse than Inter Miami, tacticians worse than Jason Kreis, and pitches worse than Gillette Stadium.
Man-oh-man… so it’s true that at one time, the Premier League had players worse than Inter Miami, tacticians worse than Jason Kreis, and pitches worse than Gillette Stadium.
I can’t stop watching this - so the player literally saw the entire line running upfield and just scooped the ball downfield to himself?? I am more obsessed with this wacky brain tactics than the #7 first being off and then missing the tap in.
Have you seen this footage of the Dutch national team from 1974? On defense, they swarm like mad. On first look, I thought they were as undisciplined as a bunch of u-8 peewees. Everyone just runs to the ball. And they play an extremely high line. I think a few factors made this effective:
- It's the sort of crazy new thing that works until everyone figures out how to counter it.
- They were in fact extremely disciplined and smart about the offside trap. Look at the sequence starting at 0:52. Again at 1:12. Of course, when it breaks down you get embarrassing moments like the play above. I love how the guy who kicked the ball through the advancing defensive line just ran through them and received his own pass. It also helped that the offside rule was stricter in the 1970s with respect to how much a player needed to be behind the second last defender.
- With obvious individual exceptions, I think overall technical skill was much lower. That favored defense generally and specifically this sort of tactic. As widespread offensive finesse increased, allowing more players to evade or pass through challenges, defenses had to become more conservative to avoid conceding easy goals.
I think he might have been behind the ball when it was played. Maybe at least.
I honestly couldn’t decide for a while if this belonged here or in the Amazing thread
Part of me wanted to put this in the "Skills, Amazing Plays" thread, because while it is "Utter Crap" - it's also kind of amazing.
Can we get a side-by-side of this flipped with villa's goal against philly? lmfao
Amazingly Coccaro got on goal about 20 minutes later with the keeper on the ground and one defender and didn’t score again, though he probably deserved a PK call on that one.
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