Style of play

[OnlyOneCity]

Thanks to Pep, nearly every team plays it”out from the back”. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be happening. Playing out from the back with City seems to involve the goalie passing to the full back or central defender, the ball is then passed back to the goalie for the routine to start again. Whoever has the ball when the music stops. i.e. the opposing forward has got fed up waiting and realises the ball is going nowhere, he then  pressurises the defender into kicking the ball somewhere upfield which is what the goalie could have done the first place. I thought the idea of playing out from the back was to make progression upfield via the wings or midfield, with accurate passing. It pains me to say that one team who do not play this way, are Forest. They are direct and much more effective than many other slow build teams.