Lentwood
Full Member
Most people aren’t qualified to determine whether a football team is playing a particular system and whether they are playing it effectively.
First of all, most posters will never have played football to any kind of reasonable standard - so have never been coached by professional grade coaches
Secondly, most people only have a very basic grasp of tactics, which usually starts and ends with the actual formation a team is playing
Finally, it’s nearly impossible to tell on the TV whether a team are playing a particular system and whether they are playing it effectively. The side-on angle and the close-ups make it very difficult. Ideally, you need to be sat much higher and have more of a top-down view of the pitch.
It was certainly an eye-opening experience sitting in East Stand T2 during LvGs spell in charge. You could clearly see the instructions the players were (trying) to follow and it was unlike anything I’d seen before. Arguably, it is was the clearest and most coherent system we’ve had for years. Whether it was effective and whether we had the players to pull it off...arguably not!
First of all, most posters will never have played football to any kind of reasonable standard - so have never been coached by professional grade coaches
Secondly, most people only have a very basic grasp of tactics, which usually starts and ends with the actual formation a team is playing
Finally, it’s nearly impossible to tell on the TV whether a team are playing a particular system and whether they are playing it effectively. The side-on angle and the close-ups make it very difficult. Ideally, you need to be sat much higher and have more of a top-down view of the pitch.
It was certainly an eye-opening experience sitting in East Stand T2 during LvGs spell in charge. You could clearly see the instructions the players were (trying) to follow and it was unlike anything I’d seen before. Arguably, it is was the clearest and most coherent system we’ve had for years. Whether it was effective and whether we had the players to pull it off...arguably not!