Mings has been great for us but most noticeable was how slow he brings the ball out of defence,
his job is to give the midfield the ball a.s.ap.
I’m not sure that’s the case. Unai loves to invite the press and open up space.
The problem is, when teams don’t bother pressing all it does is make Mings and Konsa dawdle on the ball, devoid of ideas while in the meantime the opposition have had time to track back, pack the middle of the pitch and make it 10 times harder to pass through them.
The problem I have with it is that we rarely mix it up.
In games where we have played with more zip and intensity we have battered teams.
We don’t seem to want to play that way very often.
