"Possession football" refers to a style of playing soccer or football where a team focuses on keeping the ball for long periods of time and controlling the game through passing and ball movement.
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Most top teams play a form of counter attacking football — but most of them play
better possession football when they have the ball.
I think we should try playing counter - attack this game and not try to open them up with our
usual possession football because that never seems to work.
I think everyone agrees that we were rubbish for most of the game, especially with our passing and that surprises me for a team that
likes possession football at least there should be mastery of ball retention and passing out of tight spaces especially as we obviously do nt do defending.
The truth is Arsenal have changed their style
from possession football to now counter attacking just to accommodate Sanchez.
We look good on the counter attack yet Wenger stil makes us play this slow possession football
What makes
possession football work is not if your defence holds strong and concentrate — but if your attack is clinical.
I honestly do think Gundogen could excell playing alongside our players, I think he is better
at possession football currently than Coquelin and would offer more to the attack against teams that just sit back and defend... and I think that could also help Coquelin develop that part of his game, they would push each other as neither would be a clear 1st choice but both being capable.
Aside from the poor transfers over 10 years, the complete lack of tactics, one dimensional football, being predictable, playing players out of position, playing players who should be benched, over playing players (ongoing injuries), not motivating the team, poor youth academy, bad formations set up for under - performing players and over reliance on tikka
tikka possession football, no he hasn't done much wrong!
Our defensive strengths last season were bolstered by the fact that we play
possession football so well and in the prem bar a few teams none really have the attacking power to test it, however for those that did you could see the results.
There are a number of factors that appear to have influenced this untimely downfall and it's most likely due to increasing competition from European counterparts and the rise in the quality and standards of other Euro - based teams, particularly in the style of
possession football even the supposed «weaker» teams are now adopting.
Let's bring in the biggest and strongest players available with no regard for their footballing ability and
pretend possession football starts with Ozil and not deeper in midfield.
Early last season, I was critical of Thorns playing too much
negative possession football - where the ball goes sideways / backwards with no risk, but little reward.
If we gonna play
possession football then he is a better option as he is able to protect n keep the ball well as opposed to the Ox who is better suited to counter attacking football.
Flamini, Ramsey and Ox in the same team — looks like Wenger doesn't like possession football anymore
The players u see today erforming extraordinarily for their teams today may turn out to be shadows cuz of Wenger's playing tactics and methods (slow
ball possession football with no killer instinct and no excellent wing play)
City were a joy to watch today in the perfect advertisement for Pep Guardiola's infamous brand of one -
touch possession football.
Brendan Rodgers may have been a protegé of José Mourinho's, but his style is cut from the mould of Guardiola, right down to the insistence that, wherever he go, his side play short -
passing possession football.
The wingers eventually switched sides around the 25 minute mark, but by then City had started to play
possession football rather than their initial long - ball style.
The passing and
patient possession football that we saw from Swansea last season isn't too far away, but it relies on big striker to perform every week.
The era of «tiki taka»
possession football as practitioned by Barcelona and Catalan disciple Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich continues to diminish in its influence as Real Madrid's breathtaking direct counter attacking style cruelly demonstrated in the Champions...
«We made seven changes but it was still really fluent, it looked like proper football — offensive football, dominant football,
possession football how it should be,» Klopp explained.
There have been a handful of reasons for this: key position players often leave, there has been a gradual shift from tippy -
tappy possession football to a more direct approach and injuries forced the abandonment of the zonal marking system that the team attempted to install at the beginning of last season.
In an 11 year managerial career, he formalised the genius of his own playing talent into a system and a philosophy, which he helped to further ingrain at Ajax and Barcelona, and eventually influencing the global game — setting off a process of
refined possession football and youth development that made Spain and Germany world champions.
I'm not talking
about possession football, one can have an attacking mindset without dominating the ball as clearly expressed by his early FC Porto and Chelsea sides.
The computer analysis also shows that Dunga played a key role in the kind of
possession football practised by Brazil, characterised by passing between groups of two or three players.
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