Sunday 12 November 2017

MY TAKE SWEDEN VS ITALY WCQ.

now when you talk of tactics then the one country that stoods out is italy . they are the pioneer of tactical football . i had been writing in my every post that the coach is to make the changes to the games instantly and constantly if possible and explain his player about that during the training sessions ( that is what they are for ) . but after watching that match against sweden i think i had never watch italy to be so tactically so naive or say that they were just one dimensional or just utterly hopeless . i read the headlines that ventura and others needs to be kicked out of the italian football well if i want to make a statement then i can definitely say that even if they world cup which i find somewhat difficult . if italy were hopeless then i would say that sweden were very well coached . in football just as its important as how you defend but at the same time you need to show the quality when you have the ball . sweden just used the ball very well . the important thing was that they knew next . the only disappoint for me was not having forsberg on the ball and if possible then the coach should just build the offense around him .

italy started the game with their usual 3-5-2 formation while sweden started the game with 4-6-0 formation ( i am saying this because they were trying to get every player behind the ball .the reason why i called italy to be very hopeless was because they were just so one dimensional . the ball would either end up at the feet of candreva and darmian who would just cross the ball in the box . i had never seen such hopeless team at what they were doing with the ball . italy had two of the best midfielders in the world with one very good forward in the form of belotti . but all these players and their quality were in vain . sweden definitely had the physical advantage over italy atleast upfront and at the back . italy's game plan was to take the ball and cross . sweden were going to play deep because they were conerned about immoble's running behind the back four . they were going to play narrow knowing that italy even they dont have flair have quality in the ranks . i really dont understand as to why they were hurrying with the ball . they had the plan a with the cross in the box but now ventura needs to improvise once sweden were set themselves on defense for the cross and this is where he failed . he just continued with the plan A for the entire match . he should had tried to bring the ball inside . there was no hard pressing from the swdish and ventura should had tried that . secondly one of the key features of antonio conte's side was the cohesion between his two front players here i didnt saw any . once in the match belotti and immoble combining and sweden were scrambling . i think belotti must had been one of the most frustrated players in the italian team . they dont play around him . they just want him to head the ball if it can reach him .
i say sweden are a very well coached team because they know what to do when they have the ball . they had the phyical advantage upfront with berg and taivonen . sweden knew what  they had they do when they had the ball . they had to take ball upfield as early as possible and they tried to play through their front players . the good thing was that if the front players were not winning the first ball then they were contesting for the second ball . this is good coaching because if you cannot win the first ball then you can definitely contest for the second one till it gets on the floor . sweden were able to find space between the lines because even though italy were 3-2 against sweden at the back italian defenders made some very basic mistakes to hand over the advantage to sweden . even though italy had 3-2 advantage over sweden even in the midfield but svenson and ekdal were able to move the ball easily and were very good on the ball . sweden what sweden had to and if this theme continues then i think they deserve to be in the WC finals than italy .