The Role of the Wide Forward in a Mixed Strategy

When you have a wide forward who gets into the box, what that means is not the wide forward goes into the box without the ball 100% of the time. The question is when that happens, what does the fallback do? Liverpool got Sub-As-Lai from RB Leipzig because they feel like they have this right-sided role for him where he can push into those wide spaces. Manchester City want John Stone to make attacking choices in a way that almost no other team does. And so I think that the idea now for City is to go further and that should be doing this on the left as well with Martin Havert or Ellie Odegard at nine. So