Messi doesn't, Ronaldinho didn't, neither did Riquelme and Murray certainly doesn't
Pace helps, but being quick upstairs is much more relevant.
I'm not dismissing pace, this is going to take some huge leaps of faith so hang in there:-
Instead of maintaining possession with reasonably safe passes to feet what if
- Dunk wins possession.
- Passes the ball FORWARD 20 (twenty) yards to Propper.
- Already alive to the situation Ali J has gone past the previously pressing fullback.
- Propper plays a one (certainly no more that two) touch pass FORWARD behind the now back pedaling fullback.
- As switched on is Andone, who was on the halfway line and is new making a bee-line to goal.
No player has to have any great speed in that equation, but the ball needs to do a lot of very accurate work very quickly.
It must be possible I've seen other teams do it.
Naturally though one mistake and 4 possibly even 5 players are out of position the Albion are 1-0 down.
With half of us are screaming for defensive cover while the other half are smugly rubbing their chins.
Yes.
Exactly.
No it wasn't. We attacked, lost the ball and conceded.
That's because our attempt at attacking failed.
