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Interesting reading together with some worrying analysis in some places that sounds all too familiar 

'Villa struggled to maintain the same defensive resilience following Villa’s switch to a back three. Smith encouraged his wing-backs to join attacks, so opponents had plenty of joy counter-attacking into the spaces they vacated. The centre-backs struggled to get across quickly enough to delay their opponent and allow teammates to make recovery runs. As a unit, the Villa defence proved ineffective at moving across to try and lock play near the touchline.

Equally, when they had dropped into a deeper 5-3-2 block, their midfield three struggled against switches of play. Their wide centre-backs had to move out to support the isolated wing-back. This led to the defence being exposed all too regularly'.

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Just now, BurwellCanary said:

Interesting reading together with some worrying analysis in some places that sounds all too familiar 

'Villa struggled to maintain the same defensive resilience following Villa’s switch to a back three. Smith encouraged his wing-backs to join attacks, so opponents had plenty of joy counter-attacking into the spaces they vacated. The centre-backs struggled to get across quickly enough to delay their opponent and allow teammates to make recovery runs. As a unit, the Villa defence proved ineffective at moving across to try and lock play near the touchline.

Equally, when they had dropped into a deeper 5-3-2 block, their midfield three struggled against switches of play. Their wide centre-backs had to move out to support the isolated wing-back. This led to the defence being exposed all too regularly'.

Sounds very familiar indeed.

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5 minutes ago, Nora's Ghost said:

Hopefully 'zonal marking' will finally be consigned to the bin.

Pretty much all clubs use a mix of both and that won't be changing.

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It's exactly what I've always said about playing a midfield 3. You need your wingers to defend on the flanks rather than staying forward all the time. Those areas should only be covered by the central midfielders on the occasions where the wingers are out of position.

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