Consider we have a very young squad I'm okay with 2nd, especially seeing as 1st place hasn't gotten away from us. The tactic seems to be working quite nicely as well but as you can tell from the squad details we don't have many goal outlets.
I had started to notice in the match engine that we were taking quite a few long shots. We were putting together some amazing passing moves but quite often we would then pull the trigger outside the area. I had a look at various post match analyses and confirmed my gut feeling. We liked to shoot outside the box.
You could also see the problem in the passing to an extent. Plenty of passing everywhere but in the box. The ball was coming to the attackers outside the area and the shot was coming from there. I looked at the heat map and things started to click. I needed to move the defensive line. I needed to push up so that when we started a move we started it on the halfway line, not in our half, so that more breaks would be made into the box rather than just outside.
So I changed it. Another thing I'm considering changing, although not yet is long shots. I might tone it down. The problem is whilst we are wasteful Stahl and Bajric actually get a few and as they develop and get better they're getting closer and closer. So I'm leaving that change till later.
Overall I'm happy with things. I like the club, I like the league, I like the country.
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