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11 Mar 2013 11:49:06
Champions league brought a lot of experience but I hope to god it made us wiser, lennon should look at the way juventus play and copy it, the counter attacks are great to watch x
1.) Gonna have to disagree to a point here. There is plenty of merit playing this way especially when you are as effective as the Italians at it.
More should be done in terms of our inability to break down walled defences like which we encounter more and more often and struggle to break down. We need to help instill a better onfield intelligence in our players ( yes it can't always be learned but to a degree it can).
We are expected domestically to have the lions share of posession and recent results like Juve and like Barca prove possesion is not always the key, its what you do with it.
We need to learn to tease teams out who are sitting back like this waiting to pounce. Yes a will drilled team will maintain a deep line and not break ranks but more thought needs put into it in general.
There is no real 1 style of play a team should adopt. It should be a mixture. Whether that's tika taka mixed with counter attack, long ball, constantly pump it wide. We see the best struggle at times ( barca perfect example of this) so yes this approach is sometimes merited. However we do not have the concentration or intelligence in our players to play such a one dimentional game as purely wait for the counter, its been the scorn of scottish clubs in Europe the hole keep it tight and nick something on the break ( yes the Italian method is a bit more complex than this)
So to cut a long story short, yes we should adopt some of this style of play more especially in games where we are struggling to break down teams but to play week in week out doesn't suit what I consider to be The Celtic Way.
Also can someone please teach our defence how to make a clearing header! how many times this season are we going to be caught out by our defence just trying to head it back down the middle of the park and usually straight to an opposing player?
Evinguu
2.) Dude we played counter attck football the whole champo league except the juve games
3.) Did you watch the group stage at all? Have you not listen to the other clubs and what they said about us? Cause all they talked about was our set plays and counter attacks, Lennon even in the spl has and had us scoring for fun on counter attacks. Maybe it hasn't been as of late but counter attacks is one of our most dangerous plays, really do people pay attention or think of past games or is it just the latest ones.
4.) If you guys are in response to me yes you are right in terms of europe, I presumed the OP was talking about playing this way in general like Juve do. Which I do not want to be the case.
Yes we have been dangerous on the counter in domestic games for most of the season, but this is not an adopted style for these games we have played to, this was taking an oppertunity at the time it arose.
Yes in Europe we were very defensive and relying on counter attack. And yes we had very good success at this. But in order for our team to progress we cannot rely on this sole method of playing all the time. We need to have more than one way of playing as was found out when we came up against a team better at playing this way than ourselves, this said Its not always possible to play free flowing football with the talent at our disposal. However a more thought out game can be put into place to allow us to adapt to more situations rather than approaching a game with one style of play, that should help us overcome sticky situations domestically and allow us to have relative success in Europe on a more consistent basis. Without resorting to 1 style of play.
Evinguu
5.) 11 Mar 2013 16:29:30
A good counter attacking side is more often than not built around a strong reliable defence, that is something we definitely don't have at the moment, we lack a creative enough midfield at moment to punish teams on counter, my biggest disappointment though is definitely the constant rotation or tinkering with team selection, when joe ledley started game as captain a few weeks ago he scored 2 goals yet was benched the nxt game, to many big names not performing at all yet keep there place, how tony watt is overlooked ahead of miku and lassad is testament to lennys poor team selection and tatics, I know he's still young but just doesn't seem to be learning from same basic mistakes. hail hail, GOD BLESS THE CELTIC+
6.) To be a successful counter attacking team you have to first and foremost be able to defend. W
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Wilson was great against juve so you've made a mistake there, Charlie mulgrew has been fantastic, ambrose Is poor.
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