Our problem (fans) is that we want to offload defensive duties to
midfield and attacking duties to defenders.
Not exact matches
He's tall but quick
and is the kind of
midfielder who starts the
attack but doesn't ignore his defensive
duties.
The confusion leads to players in the central
midfield to join in
attack and forgetting their
duty as transitioners of the team (turning defending into
attacking and start the first defending of any
attack to us).
A regista can defend but it is not his primary skill
and that is leaving us exposed when our
midfield is bullied
and the
attacking players forget their defensive
duties.
For me the biggest concern is the finishing, our
midfield can easily match Barca's but if we
attack and fail to score within the first 20 min it will only give MSN trio more confidence to abandon defensive
duties and apply more pressure on our defence.
He has established himself as a key part of the Newcastle
midfield since then, despite being shifted around from an out -
and - out
attacking role to more box - to - box
duty by Magpies boss Alan Pardew.
I think that's his best position has he has the technical skills for it, but every creative /
attacking midfielder believes that is their best position because of the freedom the role allows
and the reduced defensive
duties due to the role being that essentially of a 2nd striker in a 442 or 4411, leaving the bulk of defending to 2 CMs.
Arsenal's
attack has been much more fluent recently
and that has been due to more of the
midfield being able to temporarily forget their defensive
duties and press forward more.