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Perhaps someone would like to know who the most successful crosser in the premiership is, and how many of his crosses result in goals. Crossing is overrated and with good Centre halves, easily nullified. The key is to have to great wide men who can make runs into the box, can score and pass. That is, we want Ljunberg, who we have, and the old Pires, which we don't have.
I don't see as ever having as stingy a defense as Chelsea, because we attack far too much. Still, when you look at us as a team, we do play 4-4-1-1. The problem is we get tend to get drawn too far up when teams are playing with so many men behind the ball. That is, we are easily caught on the break. It's a tricky situation. The way we play is fine; our defenders simply have to be more disciplined and our wide players have to track back. Combine that with a better goalkeeper and we are easily in the top 2/3 defenses in England.
I don't see as ever having as stingy a defense as Chelsea, because we attack far too much. Still, when you look at us as a team, we do play 4-4-1-1. The problem is we get tend to get drawn too far up when teams are playing with so many men behind the ball. That is, we are easily caught on the break. It's a tricky situation. The way we play is fine; our defenders simply have to be more disciplined and our wide players have to track back. Combine that with a better goalkeeper and we are easily in the top 2/3 defenses in England.