Have Premier League teams forgotten how to defend?
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
The Shift in Premier League Football
It feels like there's a lot more goals at the moment, particularly in crunch games that as I alluded to with Everton Lester. It does feel like there's been a shift on that front. The team in the relegation battle who we're probably not going to speak about, which is Southampton, whose time in a Premier League in recent years is almost going to be defined by those like nine Nells. They were built to press high and they're built to defend a certain way. And if that goes a little bit wrong, it goes completely wrong for them. So yeah, I think there has been a big shift away from that.
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