Yeah it made sense, ha ha

With high pressing, you ideally need the whole team to do it nowadays, otherwise you end up with huge gaps that the opposition can exploit and pass through to quickly counter. It's more of a problem now that more teams are trying to become possession heavy and looking to flood the midfield.

However, if the entire team pulls it off then you can force lots of mistakes and long balls. Leicester are brilliant at it because they have an incredibly fast side that can run hard for 90 minutes. Klopp's Dortmund were the same until the final season under him when injuries, player sales, poor buys and smarter opposition tacticians led to their downfall.

Naismith is capable of it, but we have a lot of slow unathletic players in the squad, so I can understand why we don't play like that generally. Against a slow and technically poor team it's less of a risk.

Posted By: Common Sense Police, Jan 24, 18:07:38