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  • de_coherence@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I’ve seen a lot of users here comment on how teams play the nastiest low block against us but come out to press other teams. Here’s a comment from the subreddit of another team:

    "Looking at that Bellingham goal against Napoli, as well as other teams against each other in the prem, always puzzles me.

    Why does everyone press us at 100km/hr, while they just park the bus and play at pedestrian pace against the other top clubs?"

    Me personally, I’d rather be on this end of the aisle.

    • nidas321@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      What you prefer out of those two depends on the squad you have, for us we definetly want them pressing us, with Raya now we have at least the second most press resistant back line in the world. 95 times out of 100 we’ll just play through them and get a dangerous attack going.

      That said I do remember in the Emery days and all the way up until last season with Arteta I was a bit jealous of City in how teams just sat back. When we were playing it out with Leno, Luiz and Mari that felt easier