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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 3912419, member: 237"]
Great write ups. In most cases even many amateur coaches don't look at it so analytically. I mean at it's core it is similar to the Dutch system as you noted but also somewhat akin to the Spanish system too.

For the less technical soccer minds it's effectively creating triangles all over the field where ideally you have 3 v 1 or at least 3 v 2. Small sided games are a part of many practices but really are best suited to emphasize this style of play.

Adding another layer you are deciding also where you want your triangles so to speak. The skillsets required to play this type of football are advanced to say the least. You can see where a player like Pines sticks out like a sore thumb because his skillset doesn't fit this style. In fairness it doesn't really fit well with many of the roster on the current GC version.

So what you are seeing is even a very inefficient execution of the primative version of this system and often it shifts to look more like a leaky 5-2-3 where you have both middies playing either too far up or too far back because the ball isn't moving quickly or accurately enough.

I think the hardest thing though is that when you lack having 11 guys who can run this system it is more difficult to accomplish the goal of identifying the remaining guys who should get a shot to fill out the roster for qualifiers. For instance I'm looking at guys like Dike, Hoppe, Busio who have looked impressive but more so from an individual aspect and plays made vs being able to execute in this system well.
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