Midfielder 7, Study Home work for Aaron, Dale, Eoin, Luke. This is the region you are responsible to defend. Your work as a number 7 is not easy and demands a lot of runing to defend and attack. Look the formation how we close our lines defending against the other physical players.
Concentrate and do not get lost defending against a gost. Look from where the attackers come and keep stright defense line, shrinking building a wall together with our defending midfielders: 6 Brian and 8 Lance. Defend the region by zone and do not follow the attackers.
Aaron, Oein, Red carded can play this position. You will have tu study this animation. Be aware that in this case the 7 have to be fast but to arrive close to the corner and pass de ball to Kevin or Keith could be other options such as passing and advancing to get to that point.
For us it is more important to play mantaining formations, we have good players but we are playing with no order at all. Always we play a decent first half but in the second half we get desperate, play with not ideas, all our passing exersices being forgaten and worse of all we start following the other team players all over the field.
We have to stop doing that. it is killing us.
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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