There is a pattern of play. When we play from the back, both of our midfield tend to be in pivot midfield two. And when we play the ball to wide areas, we often create square link with 4 players and that’s where one of the midfield drifts wide. For example on the right flank, we often have McTominay, Bissaka, Greenwood, and Bruno linking together in square while Fred will stay in the middle. If we switch the ball to left side while Bruno is still on the right then either Cavani joins in to make 4 square link or we just do triangle with Fred, Shaw, Martial, while McTominay will drift to middle as well as Bruno. There are various reasons why we are doing this and one of them is to create space so if we focus on the right, it opens space for the left flanks or others.
The big issue is obviously the lack of technical player in the team. Players like Bruno and Greenwood can play quick one touch football but not for McTominay, Fred and Bissaka to do on consistent basis. As a result, when they try to play one touch football, we end up giving the ball away and that’s where we can be vulnerable on counter and that’s the main reason why we are unable to have total control.
Do you blame it for bad coaching? Or is it more the fact we don’t have enough technical player to play that way or may be we have some of these technical players but we chose to play with the non-technical one, after all, Ole is the one who signed Bissaka and persistent to play McFred over Donny.