I don?t know much about the X?s and O?s of soccer, but I?m trying to learn. I had a thought on our recent soccer woes and I?d like to bounce it off you guys that know more.
It seems that our team has a few characteristics that snowball badly whenever we get behind. In other words, it seems that our team is not really built to come from behind.
Against both UK and WVU, we got behind early due to sloppy play in front of our goal. Then, particularly against UK, it seemed after that they basically parked the bus and we couldn?t really get through their defense.
When I watch the games on TV, the commentators talk constantly about how we are ?patient? on offense and how we build from the back, with all the passing back and forth with the GK, etc. It seems this both creates those risks leading to the early goals for the opponent, and then this ?patient? approach also does not work when the other side switches to a more defensive alignment. I read somewhere that when your opponent parks the bus, you need to attack with more tempo to counter it. But we don?t really seem to do that, hence our ?patient? offense. Is this a reasonable assessment?
Earlier in the season, I seem to remember more long passes up the field leading to quick strikes, but not so much in our 2 losses. Just wondering what?s going on with that, if it?s a matter of certain players being out, etc.