It looked like they intentionally played 2-3 of their players offside and had a man run in from an onside position, literally watching the game 2 players left the ball for the guy running in.
Could easily have been a goal if he cut it back to any of the players on his side but chose to shoot. This looked so practiced it’s scary sometimes how teams just train to beat our line.
by X_wantstoknow
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It feels like rayo always gameplans for our games, they are sharp and on point with a good gameplan
Get Haaland or someone man whoever can finish effectively
If they can score 4 with us using high line least we can score 6-7
Excellent move if you ask me. Lucky to have not conceded. Flick will look into it, no worry. Or we outscore them haha
They know how to open up our weak spots on the highline. Luckily their attackers couldn’t capitalize.
This was the same against la real last year. They had multiple runs and it’s hard to set up a trap against that. But they are also taking risks. We are just poor at exploiting them today
This has happened before, Sevilla did this too in that 4-1 away game this season.
This is serious soccer going not rocket league
Yeah. The decoy runs. Our defense steps up and there is a third or fourth runner who is onside. Usually they are on the flanks and cross to one of the players who were onside initially but are now not because they are behind the crosser.
This has been a consistent tactic which started last year and our team has been cut open multiple times. Our goalkeeper and defence have snuffed out most of the danger but it might not happen all the time
I think it was more about players being tired and not focused all the time.
The play you are indicating has been employed by most of the La Liga teams who have managed to defeat us. Such as sociedad last season with Becker.
This situation wouldn’t arise if our midfielders were active and marking people, effectively they are tired and out of position allowing their midfield players to climb up on our defence.
to no effect.
Everybody violates our high line it’s nothing new
It would be weird to give an offside, but actually, isn’t the player influencing the play by making the defenders move and allowing the others to be onside?
Bc they did practice it bro. I remember even last season Rayo always tried to exploit our high line
Surprised they didn’t score
I remember in the older days the offside rule would include any player that was interfering with the play, even if the ball was never actually played offside. Is this no longer a rule? If they have 3 players all offside interfering with the play to distract the defenders or is that not a thing anymore?
let’s just hope arsenal and atleti dont practice this
And with this defense Barca fans are expecting champions league not even getting past Atleti. Bayern will murder this defense even if we past Atleti and arsenal and get to the final.
They were really good there’s another moment in the game where a rayo player that was offside tried to go to the ball and left it for another rayo player who was on side…. that doesn’t qualify as an offside😅
“Tactically” speaking, what are we supposed to do here? Are we supposed to keep an eye on players that come from that far behind and man-mark them?
Flick didn’t invent the high line; it has been around since the 70s. As with any other football tactics, it’s about maximising the upside (pressing and creating attacking opportunities) and minimising risks, such as runners getting behind. But for teams interested in attacking a high line, there are counter-tactics they can use. It usually comes down to execution and individual quality.
Of course they practiced it. Would be silly not to.
On our game away against them, they exploited it over and over. They actually innovated quite a bit tactically to do so, leaving Isi way in offside position, to start running ahead of the defenders when the ball went over us on the sides. In both cases, Joan saved our asses.
it is something we didn’t practice.
Not surprised they’re the first team this season who came up with the plan of leaving their striker in an offside position and then sending the ball wide to the deep runner and then square for a goal. It was a miracle ended 1-1. Teams started doing that after that game
Arent they offside in your image.
What are u saying? Thats clear offside
they violated it even more in the reverse fixture
Games like this just prove that we’re not winning the UCL. Any half decent team would’ve finished that chance. It’s so easy for teams to get in behind us just for us to rely on Joan Garcia to bail us out or that they miss. It’s eventually gonna catch up to us.
I thought exactly about this! But my question is, if the guys in offside make your defenders to follow them, isn’t that intervening in the game?