The only way to beat it is up the tempo, this passing across the backline at snails pace just allows their midfield to sit back and wait for the mistake and it came time and time again, mostly in the form of a huge boot into touch from bramble. Our passing at Villa was much slicker and quicker but to be fair villa gave us the space and time to do that.
Great post. After pre-season I was worried that we would get found out quickly and that once a team closes us down for 90 mins we wouldn’t have the speed of passing to break a team down. Some of the passing along the back line last night was so slow it gave wolves all the time in the world to get everyone marked up (against Villa I don’t seem to remember us playing the ball so slowly across the back except for the last 5 minutes when Bramble had one of his “moments”).
Like you say we will probably play better against teams that give us the time and space to pass it about but we also need to take points from the “bread and butter” games against the likes of wolves, birmingham, stoke, hull. Anyway, will be interesting to see where we are after 10 games or so!!
