Bit concerned about Liverpools full backs running from deep through our offside trap.
Quote from: PeterWithe on May 15, 2023, 09:53:59 PMBit concerned about Liverpools full backs running from deep through our offside trap.I'm more concerned that VAR will be drawing some dodgy lines, if they even bother to look at all.
Is VAR supposed to check all potential offsides or only the ones that lead to a significant event/goal etc? I feel like a lot don’t get flagged, which makes a huge difference given how we now play.
Quote from: rooboy316 on May 21, 2023, 11:13:59 AMIs VAR supposed to check all potential offsides or only the ones that lead to a significant event/goal etc? I feel like a lot don’t get flagged, which makes a huge difference given how we now play. Most assistants like to leave it really late, which is annoying.
Because we're defending less in our third. We force the opposition into mistakes or low-percentage boofs and we win it back that way. Seems to be working!
Yep, if the line breaks down the chance the opposition gets is likely to be a better one. The idea though is to prevent them getting as many chances overall - and I think it's worth remembering that we got a couple of batterings on days when everything went wrong (particularly Mings getting injured against Newcastle) which slightly skews the data - we've looked a lot more solid recently I'd say, though not a lot of clean sheets I guess.