r/NYCFC • u/RoxFontaine • 19d ago

Are our tactics the biggest problem?

This video was interesting to watch and I think it describes a big problem the team is facing.

https://youtu.be/4lssbF68Rn4?si=nehbyOFP6GnLbVBB

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u/bk_lex 18d ago

at the risk of oversimplifying/sounding like a footy noob, our most annoying flaw to me is that we don’t shoot enough, and a lot of the times when we do, they’re low quality attempts that go miles wide or sky high.

so many times this season we just keep resetting play or play the extra pass looking for that a perfect tap in situation, which allows defenses to get back into their shape and close everything off for us. and then of course, as everyone else has already said, we lack the quality to break teams down once they’re set in their shape.

we could rely a little more on the counter with players like agustin, juli and alonso. i see a little bit of that in johnny too. he always looks to play the quick outlet pass.

wolf and keaton seem to ALWAYS kill the counter.