Bielsa's "we'll score one more than you" high press with this team?
Yikes.
Can understand this interpretation, but if you actually think about the personnel - Maupay, Onana, Gueye, Gordon, Gray, Iwobi - these are all players who have demonstrated that they have the skill set to execute the high press either with the club or elsewhere. The problem with the squad for the past 18 months has been the ineffective coaching; they all hated Benitez (who was a dinosaur anyway) and Lampard has had problems well documented about inability to coach a press
There's 100% a case to be made that we could have success playing this way - there's without doubt no creativity on the ball in the team, so we should be aiming to either:
(a) sit deep, soak pressure, create space, score on the transition (Lampard, Nuno, Dyche); or
(b) press high, win the ball close to goal, create better chances as a result (Bielsa).
Someone like Bielsa with
that level of attention to detail could have success with this team without doubt - his Leeds side were just as poor technically as we are but they were fantastically coached; they were still good until injuries ravaged their season.
