Is MARICIO POCITTINO style very slow for USMnt?

If anything will be obligated to lose usmnt mostly 2-1 to Türkiye last week, then it will also be Jack McallyThe first goal with the team, or the unfortunate moment when Johnny Cardoso The ball was shaken to Arda GollerShin and his team’s goal.

However, the most explained moment of the exhibition match occurred a few seconds before the ball flowed to the last goalkeeper, Matt Friz, and through the goal line.

Alex Freeman had just won the ball from Juventus Kennan gives birth Immediately outside the USMnt penalty area. Transfer the ball to Cardoso, who had the opportunity to play long and long, forward to an area of ​​space on the left side of the field. Türkiye has just lost possession, so it has not yet turned into its defensive form. Instead, Cardoso frequency and then play a safe pass Chris Richards. As happened, US director Mauricio Pochettino threw his hands in the air, jumped, toured him and shouted something towards the bench. After a few seconds, Freez was getting the ball out of his net.

Although the same goal was a obsessive play – a fairly bad luck that the ball was deprived in the first place, so completely bad luck that it deviated in a way like rotation in the side network – the entire possession was a mini image of the biggest problem in the team under Poittino: it plays very slow. While most of the modern UsMnt era has been characterized by a fixed and full activity, the past two months have turned in the other direction.

Poittino knows this; He addressed the play posmatch, and he was rejected at the present time, and made similar comments after losing 1-0 against Panama in the semi-finals of the Nations League. But if the team will run in the World Cup next summer, it will have to find a way to make its players, well, running.

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Why Poitttino’s USMnt is the slower ever

Poittino has managed to manage only nine American matches so far, and the general rule in the football world in the club must wait 10 games before extracting any conclusions. But only three of these games were competing, while the fourth match, which is the third match for the League, is what we call “partial competitive”. Throwing in the fact that the lists and the squad were very different through almost every international break, and it is still too early to say anything specific remotely.

The biggest difference between the duration of Poittino and the Gregg Beharter era, it appears to be the structure it possesses. The latter had somewhat solid topical guidelines for the place where everyone should be, while the former gave the players ’license to solve defensive problems alone.

“The way we press [under Pochettino] It is more aggressive, especially from the goals of the goals, “the midfielder Luka de la Tori Espn said after the Türkiye match. “There is an intention to play in the other half of the team. There may be more freedom with Pochittino in terms of placing players to find solutions in open play.”

Midfielder Tellman owner De La Tori’s final point was echoed. “It gives us players who are offended a lot of freedom to move around the stadium to find the right spaces,” the PSV striker said. “With Greg, there was a lot of focus on being in the same spaces.”

Again, it is still too early to determine the most effective approach, or if someone is more effective than the other. Although strict topical guidelines provide compact basics that the team can play immediately, the most relationship method must theoretically take more time to develop because the players need to understand each other’s tendencies. The free flow approach may improve over time-or it may be impossible to prove it due to constantly changing employees and the limited time of the game presented in the international game.

Perhaps, also, this is why the team has struggled to move the ball quickly so far under Pochittino. It is difficult to make decisions when you are not sure where your teammates are.

Statistical performance contains full data for USMnt matches dating back to 2010. Among the managers who were responsible for at least five games, the Poittino team occupies another:

– The speed that the ball drives on the field: 1.03 meters per second
– The number of property in the match: 82.1

The previous is clear and direct – literally, how quickly the ball moves towards the opposition’s goal? The latter, almost, represents the amount of chaos you want to be your matches. For example: Liverpool from Jurgen Klopp played high -possession games where the ball was constantly changing, while Manchester City at Pep Guardiola in the Premier League for property in almost every match. For comparison: Berhleter teams moved to 1.34 meters per second and an average of 87.8 properties for each game.

This does not mean that the slower approach cannot succeed; Obviously it is possible. Pep has won everything while playing is slower than anyone else, while Arsenal played in Mikel Arista very slowly, and they ranked second in the Premier League for three consecutive seasons. In general, European football has become more systematic and feverish with every season that passes.

At the same time, all three three teams in the world are currently tending – Paris Saint -Germain, Liverpool and Barcelona – to play faster and embrace more popular chaos in the highest levels of the game. Most of the best USMnt players are better to play this way as well.

Why does a USMnt Player gathering running

When you work, the slower approach prevents the ball away from your opponents, prevents the type of anti -perfect attack by Barcelona Hansi Felk frequently, and creates a low amount of high -quality opportunities.

Defensive, the team was fine under Poittino. The loss against Panama has nothing to do with the dispensed defense. Usmnt has approved three total clips of 0.1 expected goals – if you can ensure that the Americans do so in every World Cup match next summer, I ask you to go and bet on winning the championship at the present time.

No, the problem was against Panama-and on a wider range-that USMnt created a low volume of low-quality opportunities. If you will not bear more risks and try more shots, you should be able to generate better shots with the few shots you have. In the nine Poittino matches, the United States tried 10.4 shots for each game-less than any administrative period other than Dave Sarashhan’s interim work between Juergen Klensman and Greg Berhalter. But they also created only five total shots, at a value of at least a third of expected goal. For comparison, the average Berhater team was 1.6 per game.

These are all 94 shots trying under Poittino, the size of the expected air value to try:

In the end, the slower approach does not seem to suit many of the best USMNT players. In the attack, Voline Balogon He was in the hacking season while playing in the heavy transitional approach under Will in Reims. both of them Christian Polisic and Timothy Wei They are at their best when they can run in unstable defenses. And in PSV, both Ricardo Bibi The owner of Tillaman was successful to Peter Boss and his wide open tactics.

In the midfield, everyone Tyler Adams“The best seasons came to the chaos in Bournemouth, Leeds and RB Leipzig. Weston McKini It continues to prosper despite the relatively conservative tactics in Juventus, but I think much of this is because his managers are all aware that they need to find a way to embrace the risks he takes off from the ball. At this stage of his career, Yunus Moussa“The most valuable skill is his ability to penetrate pressure and create transitional moments for his team.

Even in the back, Anthony Robinson It is one of the most sporty appearances in the open field … in the whole world. Chris Richards plays former Red Ball manager at Oliver Glasner in Crystal Palace. Sergiño fate He is likely to be the only first selection player to seem completely comfortable in this dominant approach to possession-and still is playing Poittino.

Now, there is a possible fraud code – cut – here. Without them, Arsenal will be a rival of the four best competitors and Champions League, instead of the title competitor and half of the European semi -finals. If you can create opportunities from the specified pieces systematically, you can turn on a low -risk and slower pattern. In addition, if you score the opening goal of a specific piece, the defense must follow, and this facilitates the attack.

Although the United States has employed the famous group coach, Gianni View, we have not yet seen any of this. Despite all the USMnt under PoCittino – 60.4 %, more than any other manager – he tried only 1.6 clips a piece per game, which is the lowest number of manager.

Therefore, through the first nine games of the Poittino era, we seem to have a coach who says he wants to play his team faster and a group of players who flourish at a higher pace. However, in some way, they fought to get out of the first equipment. Poch’s general frustrations may not coincide with what his team is required to do. These players may need more striking topical guidelines. Or it can just be some early growth pain.

The broader challenge for this summer, with a limited list of the Gold Cup, and the next summer in the World Cup, is that USMNT find a way to start generating high -quality opportunities on the goal. With the exception of some developments on the piece of the presented group, the way to get there is to find an answer to what appears to be a simple question: How can you get all the contestants running again?