That quote on the Barca version of tika-taki put it in a nutshell van, our problem is we dont have the players who can consistently play this style, nor do we have a striker who doesn't need a dozen chances to put the ball in the net regardless of the quality of those chances. A feature of our recent games has been the congestion in midfield/third quarter and that is because of our inability to properly form and reform those scalene triangles on the right and left touchlines. The answer is not a return to hoof style 442 formation, We either coach and convert our existing players or we sign players who can already play this style, either way it's going to take some time I feel.
Agreed!
When 3 of our players form a triangle to start outplaying our opponents, it just happens statically for 1-2 passes made possible by that formation. As soon as those passes are made we stop, because there has been too little movement since the first pass. The players involved often end up: 1 with the ball looking where to pass; 1 further back standing still behind an opponent; 1 positioned sideways also behind an opponent. No one has moved enough to progress in the attack.
This is where the ball tends to go back again to one of our holding mids and we switch from left to right, only to be repeating what happened first on the other side.
Our players don't seem to have the tiki-taka play in them at this point - from time to time they can use it for just keeping the ball, but not for attacking purposes, which is too bad.
I think we need either much more time (but I doubt that will help solve the problem entirely), or different types of new players coming into the squad (this is probably what we need).
