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Disclaimer fitness is important too
But not as important as minimising the gap between your forwards and backline. The reason for this is you need to keep your players close enough to the action to always be involved at stealing the ball. It takes huge balls to do this as a manager as you're giving up space in behind, and if it goes wrong you look like tits. But it's the risk/reward of this type of football.
The closest we've come to playing this kind of football is under LVG. However, our attack was impotent under him so it doesn't guarantee attacking football. Under Louis we'd regain the ball and recycle it back, because we didn't know how to cut through the opposition. And I think Van Gaal showed you dont exactly need 3 Kantes to play this type of football - he often had Carrick/Schweinsteiger and Fellaini in his midfield.
But not as important as minimising the gap between your forwards and backline. The reason for this is you need to keep your players close enough to the action to always be involved at stealing the ball. It takes huge balls to do this as a manager as you're giving up space in behind, and if it goes wrong you look like tits. But it's the risk/reward of this type of football.
The closest we've come to playing this kind of football is under LVG. However, our attack was impotent under him so it doesn't guarantee attacking football. Under Louis we'd regain the ball and recycle it back, because we didn't know how to cut through the opposition. And I think Van Gaal showed you dont exactly need 3 Kantes to play this type of football - he often had Carrick/Schweinsteiger and Fellaini in his midfield.