Originally Posted by Section_31
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It's also important to remember that the premiership is comprised of between 70-90% pure shite. Mediocre players who can't play tactically and managers who are mostly mouth and hard luck stories.
Against sides like that it CAN be as simple as saying "look, you're fucking miles better than them, get out there, pull them wide and then get into the box."
Seriously, if a Giggs or a Ronaldo are going hell for leather down the flanks and Scholes is running on, what're West Ham supposed to do about it? Put six men across the middle and deploy a sweeper system?
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Newcastle have better attacking players than 16/15 of the sides in this league and a manager who uses the approach you're advocating and I guarantee they'll not be in the top 5 or 6 next season.
Infact a better example would be Barcelona. They're 3rd in their league and were put out of the CL by a United side who are inferrior and the same thing happened last year to them against us. Why are a team that have all their attacking prowess struggling? The middle and bottom of the Spanish league is even worse than this country.
As Stu summed up , gameplans are very important at this level.