Im confused, how did it take so long for long ball to become so irrelevant? When I watch games from 2003 every team just lobs the ball up over and over.
Im confused, how did it take so long for long ball to become so irrelevant? When I watch games from 2003 every team just lobs the ball up over and over.
Football is much more possession based nowadays, players have developed and been coached more into keeping the ball. The obsession with playing out from the back too, sometimes makes me nervous but the long ball hasn’t disappeared completely.
This is what I think too - teams are much more possession focussed these days
Ball is easily lost with a long ball and if the opposition can keep possession it’s demoralising, tiring and risky
4-4-2 isn’t used as much either where the long ball tactic is more popular