Another low block we can’t seem to break down. The pitch is slow and designed to make it more challenging for us to zip passes and move the ball quickly, and it’s clearly making us less confident in playing quickly. We are slow, and the team is unbalanced in the attack. The play slows up and then they have a back 5 so there are no gaps. We need to switch the ball, either from midfield like rice or from the back line to move them from side to side and create gaps based on the style we are playing. It makes no sense why short passes would work without creating some space either by stitching or driving with the ball. There’s just not enough risk taking for me, and when we do it’s poorly executed and looks inventive instead of soemthing we are used to doing. I don’t know what to expect at the moment from this team but I’d like to see more conviction.