![]() And at all times, if your keeper is either poor or inconsistent with his feet, as Edouard Mendy for example clearly is, then surely you don’t ask him to do anything fancy. The rewards for splitting the centre-backs and trying to keep possession of the ball are not sufficient for the risks you incur by trying to do it with players who are not good enough. It’s one thing to lose the ball in the opposition half, another to do so in your final third by putting yourself under pressure. In fact, there are numerous variations of how this tactic fails. Or he passes it back to the keeper who punts it upfield making the whole exercise pointless.Īnother variant is where the defender doesn’t play it wide but dinks it forward to a centrally placed teammate who is immediately swarmed by opposition players who steal the ball on the half way line and break into the final third. Or he just boots it into touch, something the goalie could also have done. ![]() Or the keeper attempts to give it to the centre-back who panics as he’s closed down and just boots it away and loses possession, something the keeper could have done in the first place only more safely. However, by this time, that wide man has been closed down, so loses possession and an attack bears down on goal or a free-kick is conceded.Īlternatively, as per David De Gea, the keeper plays a hospital pass to a defender who gets robbed and they concede a cheap goal. More typically, the keeper knocks it a few yards to one of his defenders who then usually plays it wide.
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