Champions League

Yannik

Senior Member
High lines only destroy you if the pressing fails. It's not like teams knowingly endanger themselves. The whole point is to not even let the pass happen that sends the attacker through. Liverpool won a CL with that last year and dominated a hoof ball league.
 

KingLeo10

Senior Member
High lines only destroy you if the pressing fails. It's not like teams knowingly endanger themselves. The whole point is to not even let the pass happen that sends the attacker through. Liverpool won a CL with that last year and dominated a hoof ball league.

High line is much more likely to fail if under duress of top attackers.

Guardiola tried it v us at Camp Nou in 2015. Changed after 10 mins when we had 3 clear chances.

Neymar and Mbappe can do damage. And on the other end, Lewandowski and your wingers can do damage too. So either way it would be living on the edge.
 

Yannik

Senior Member
High line is much more likely to fail if under duress of top attackers.

Guardiola tried it v us at Camp Nou in 2015. Changed after 10 mins when we had 3 clear chances.

Neymar and Mbappe can do damage. And on the end, Lewandowski and your wingers can do damage too. So either way it would be living on the edge.

eventually your top attackers need to drop back though and help beat the press in order to bring the ball even into the opponent half. Can't beat the press with Neymar and Mbappe just walking around the offside line and wait for a long ball that never comes. If the midfield battle is won, I'm confident. If not, I pray for Davies to be close when Mbappe is through.
 

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