crashbang
I am an avid Liverpool fan and have a fascination for the tactical levels of the game. My main interest is the premier league, although given more time I would like to see more of the other big leagues in europe. I'm the guy who tries to understand the odd descisions managers make, and I am going to try and change your outlook on the game. Try, being the word.
Changing Future Roles In Response To The Silva Footballing Age
How Future Football Might React To The David Silva Brand Of Winger.
Beating Barcelona: A Theoretical Guide With Pretty Pictures
So, everyone says that Barcelona are unbeatable, or are least the untouchables. Which is twaddle. Sure, they have lots of excellent players. (MessiXaviAlvesIniestaPiquePuyolBusquetsVillaSanchezPedroetc… say that five times fast) and they have the best player in the world, backed by a manager as ahead of the time as anyone as it stands and a style of…
Manchester City And The Dubious Pleasures Of Gael Clichy
So to be a top team you need attacking fullbacks. This is not just general opinion but to a degree in the modern game it is quite literally a must have. In a time of wingers who cut inside and trequartistas who have far greater mobility,fullbacks provide the width for these players to operate. Of…
A Darkness Closes In On Arsenal
Being a Liverpool Forum Obsessive I’ve read plenty of transfer gossip this season, most of which I won’t bore you with since it consists largely of hysteria about only having signed one player, albeit, a fairly big one. What I will tell you about is the general atmosphere, and it’s the same as many other…
Why Argentina Will Get Nowhere Trying To Copy Barcelona
So to get the most obvious fact out of the way first, Argentina should beat Bolivia. They should hammer them off the pitch. Messi should be dancing around the bloodstain pitch at full time with the still beating heart of Arias, the Bolivian goalkeeper, in his hand. Only metaphorically though. But they didn’t. In fact…
Lucas and Spearing: Maligned to Masterful
No, Liverpool are not going to make the Champions League this season. That said, it’s nice being a Liverpool fan at the moment. Goals are being rattled in, games we would usually struggle in being won, and every, single player is playing well, whether starlet or veteran. Good football is being played and we’ve rarely…
Why Sunderlands Goal Rush Against Wigan Was Not Such A Miracle
It was so amazing apparently, that Sunderland without any recognized strikers scored three goals in the closing minutes of a decisive game against fellow stragglers Wigan Athletic last weekend. What an achievement, to strike back against Wigan so fiercely as to cast them back into the bottom three, meaning a very nervous last few games…
Runs, Zones, and More Secrets of Great Playmakers
The first rule of play making is that team chemistry must be there. It is also the most important – a team doesn’t work then how is a play maker supposed to make dictate a game, spread the play, get the attacking players into advantageous positions or make game winning passes? It simply becomes harder…
Xavi, Alonso And The Secret Of Great Playmakers
Oh, how Liverpool miss Alonso. Before he left, Liverpool were looking champions elect for 09-10. Afterwards, Liverpool fell spectacularly from grace as they paid the price for blooding Lucas Levia into the squad in his place, when Aquilani was blighted by injury. Such is the way of a playmaker – he is a key foundation…
Why Smaller Teams Might Begin to Look to ‘Strikerless’ Formations
Fan’s are big lovers of at least having a striker on the pitch, funnily enough. Scotland’s defeat to the Czech Republic will possibly go down as Craig Levein’s defining moment if things don’t go so well, his 4-6-0 formation failing to keep the Czechs out and failing also to provide much attacking threat in return….
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