The Importance of Covering Balance in Defensive Football

If you've got a fallback coming inside obviously you just leave a big gaping hole on sort of one side of the pitch and which maybe is a bit too enticing in terms of leaving the spot to play into. I think if you lose take the centre back out you've got cover of another centre back from second forward so I guess you can maintain sort of the balance that way. Man City building up out of a 3-2 shape but having the opportunity for Edison to form part of that chain at the back as well. They didn't even see the need to actually have that safety buffer in the first phase they just went straight to it to the second phase shape in the first week.