This is a game where the home team's
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Lined up in 4231 with Maguire, Varane, Lindelof, Dalot at fullback, Casemiro, Mainoo at the back, Beefy at attacking midfielder, Garnacho on the right wing, Forson on the left in the junior midfield and Rashford up front.
Fulham played 4231 with defenders Adarabioyo, Bassey, Robinson, Castagne, Reed at the back, Lukic, attacking midfielder Pereira, Wilson, Iwobi on the wings and Muniz up front.
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The injuries are in deadly positions, with the recently injured Højlund, who has scored in six consecutive games, coupled with a re-injury to star left back Luke Shaw, who will be injured until the end of the season this time around, and the
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Having already loaned another left back, Reguilón, to Brentford in the winter, the current
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It's a situation where there is no left back and Lindelof is forced to play at left back.
In fact, it was evident from the course of the first half
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The impact of not having Højlund is immense and unparalleled, Højlund is not only tall but also not slow, and none of his basic passes are easy to intercept, in other words he can be high up in the forecourt in the
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All it takes is a forward pass when pressed, and Højlund is up front to receive the ball immediately, and he can also run down the wings to help with long passes to receive the ball, and then be able to rely on his size to shield the ball and wait for his teammates to come up.
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of Garnacho and Rashford both have the speed to get up there as quickly as possible.
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would be able to organize counterattacks in a very short period of time, which wouldn't be easy to score, but would force the opponent's all-out pressing attack back, thus keeping the defense from being attacked all the way to the breaking point, but now without Højlund.
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The counterattack evolved into a difficult to produce.
Fulham just looked like they knew it and were pressing from the start of the game, they just left it at the back with the
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An equal number of attackers is good, in a one-on-one situation
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Not dominant, and Fulham still attacked from the center, not at all the side of the road, just rely on the two wingers to use a little bit of space against the side of the pass, Fulham in the use of the
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Back waist Casemiro and Mainoo actually stand on the weakness of the gap, directly has been pressed forward, and in the corner kicks are also quite dangerous, in the first half there have been two Muniz ran to the right side of the 12-yard point or so to receive the header hard to the front of the goal, very powerful and has been the ball into the point of no one to clear the ball, Muniz was able to do the same action twice in a row in that position proves that it is the tactics of the game. The fact that Lindelof is not comfortable playing as a left back and therefore is more backward and directly used as a center back makes the penalty area exposed to the left back or left midfielder when defending a set piece, which is the area where a left back or left midfielder should be clearing the ball, but not only the left back can't do it, but also the left midfielder.
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The defense of the flankers wasn't very good either, so Fulham had been attacking in that way in the first half and were counter-attacking on the press
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Fulham created more threatening goals in the first half than the
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how (what extent)
At the start of the second half, Casemiro was replaced after a collision with Reed.
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Also substituting Forson for MacTominay & Eriksen, but this substitution failed to
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After replacing Casemiro, they lost their purely defensive midfielder, and they put MacTominay up front as a center forward (because MacTominay is a superb goal scorer), and Eriksen and Mainoo couldn't cover it.
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Fulham have seen through this, the next as long as the ball is brought forward to the inside 30 yards and then split the ball and then pass the center of the strong attack, the result is that the
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be unable to breathe
At the 65:00 mark Fulham took a corner kick, Bassey swept a shot directly into the air from the 12-yard box, hitting teammate Castagne and bouncing back, Bassey immediately went up and swept another shot from the 10-yard box on the front side of the net to give Fulham a 1-0 lead.
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Fulham took the lead and brought on Cairney and shocker Adama Traore, with the intention of making it a complete comeback, and then Diop after 81 points to bolster the defense.
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Constantly attacking, they intended to use their previous height play to force passes into the box to break the game, so MacTominay played straight into the center, but Fulham were not the Aston Villa of before, the aerial game was stronger and
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Garnacho has been playing on the left, and previous games have proven that Garnacho is a better passer if he plays on the right, which leads to
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There's been no crosses, and as soon as Fulham press.
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Backfield conduction will be messed up.
