We have enough to build up patiently and break down the likes of Monza. Certainly more than we elected to utilize yesterday.
Only because Monza isn’t an uber defensive team and actually like to attack with more then two players.
We might lack a KDB but our midfielders aren't exactly unskilled workhorses either. All of them can take a shot or make a pass if the right space is created. With four mobile forwards, you've got a lot of potential there. But that's why Mkhitaryan is so integral to the squad and why I wanted at least one of Samardzic or Sensi in the squad. Partly why I was against selling Broz too.
But they aren’t the hyper skilled technical, dribblers either. As you kinda also admit.
Most players today can make a decent pass, as all players are schooled this way, as this is required by modern football philosophy. You rarely see even defenders who can’t make a decent pass especially among the younger players.
Ours just need more space, more time then say the better ones. Because ours are modern versatile players that can do many things but also have limitations on the technical front, that live also on physics, stamina and mobility.
So numbers and runs become important, we need more stations we can pass the ball too, creating outnumbered situations and pulling the chains and opposite players apart, this always mean you risk dangerous counter attacks if they snatch up a pass. We need to create enough space for the technical level our players are on.
It's more a matter of discipline, game-management and maturity than a lack of skilled players. The positives of Inzaghi's "freedom to express" tactics are that we get some very nice interplay between players. One of the downsides is that people get carried away and start playing too fast and loose.
But even then it don’t change our need too pull defensive compact chains apart to create enough space for our players.
Inzaghi plays like this because he knows full well out players need more space to make the pass, to run etc. we don’t work in incredibly tight spaces
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