I'm concerned that we're predictable insofar as we rarely ever pass balls through lines into someone willing to half-turn and drive through the middle. It's always the same passing from side to side, which results in a 2 vs. 2, which usually ends up with a back pass and a subsequent series of passes to the other wing for the same thing.
- Why don't we create 3 vs 2 on wings?
- Why does no one ever run in-between opposition full-backs?
- Why are players so reticent to forward passes centrally?
- Why do wingers seldom drive inside and look for one-two's?
These aren't complex ideas. We see them all the team, in almost every game from Arsenal, City, even Tottenham as of late. We look static because we're not creating mis-matches, and we're not creating mis-matches because we keep playing from side to side and not seeing runners off the ball.