What goes wrong? : Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:24 am
I’ve watched a lot of academy recently and one thing strikes me over and over.Sure it’s slower, it’s less physical and the skill level is lower.
However the organisation and the ability to do the basics right is way ahead of what we get from the first team. Not just us wait either but most SL teams.
You watch any academy game and far more often than in the senior game tge players are where they could be. There defence doesn’t always hold but there methods are text book. They all run the right lines and so on.
I know it’s not as intense etc but oddly it looks more professional in a clunky kind of way.
I know the first team players are way better physically and technically in many ways but what I don’t get is why they have in some cases lost all ability to do the basics and play like a team.
If a bunch of part time kids can then why do our first team find it so hard.
Note, the opposition is all relative so to me that doesn’t count.