The Inquest Now The Dust Has Settled

[wassy04]

I have to admit that I get a bit annoyed at the widely accepted perception on this forum that every team should strive to play possession football and that the only reason for a team not doing that is because they don't have players that are good enough. I strongly disagree with that perception. There are lots of good teams in Europe with great players that chose not to play possession based football and have great success following a different tactical model.

I don't think it's a case of needing to 'play possession football' but we 100% need to be better in possession.

I actually really like our tactics, you felt we had a chance of winning every game even against the top sides. Not just a chance but we were often looking more likely to win. We just need to find a way to play when teams sit back and allow us possession. 

Most of our losses early on came when teams let us have possession and we didn't know what to do. We need to be able to create more chances in these games, possibly by changing tactics.4231 rather than 4141 or even 442.