@onepunchman I mean this arc introduced the 5 lanes concept (albeit really late for something that Fukuda emphasizes for his team A players and Aoi in the future) and Aoi's first actual loss or step back from his development, so it wasn't that bad
like how is this shit even possible ? Tripone used the front of his feet, lightly tapped it while in a stance that's stretches his leg out vertically, then proceeds to turn that ball into the palm of his feet, drag it down and then half spin out of the defender. Like that shouldn't even be...
Esperion is doing surprisingly well on defense, Kuribayashi is playing so damn well as a deep line midfielder, but if he starts to move up to attack, they're absolutely screwed, togashi is so useless wtf
@ashita-kyo well the style of play in question here I believe is a variation of tiki taka, a more direct version of it. The main thing here to notice is the pressing and space manipulation in zones. The pressing shown in this chapter is really just random, the other defender got the ball back...
@DmitriyOD well not Aoi but Togashi, marking Tripone. While Togashi is better ( I think ) technically than most first years, physically I don't think he can hold off Tripone who even Akutsu has a hard time with.
@Petrichormus yes while you are right about this zone entrapment being quite common, bear in mind that it is applied right after half time which limits what the other team's coach instructions to counter it. The way to counter it is simply pulling the other team's wing backs up out the wing to...