Roberto Martinez
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680 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2016
last heard 7 Jul
Roberto Martinez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it would allow us to do this.
You can see here that this is a team trying to avoid relegation.
That's what we were.
We're trying to stretch teams.
We're going to almost open spaces.
And then when you get into the final third, you get an opportunity to get enough bodies in the box and to exploit the 1v1 situation of the quality players that we had.
But it is a very difficult system.
to almost synchronise.
You need the time, you need the games to develop it well.
And in that season, we needed around 14, 15 games to get it to that level that we were very comfortable with that system.
And players were happy to be in those 1v1 situations.
I think we mentioned in the Everton-Newcastle game, a player like Seamus Coleman, you need to have that physicality, you need to be able to cover the pitch, but you need to be very good in both ends.
Defensively, you need to be aggressive, you need to have that... Obviously, coping in 1v1 situations, but then in the final third, you need to be able to be composed enough and...
It's very, very difficult to stop when you've got a good wing-back that he can do both roles, because it gives you that extra body when you are going forward and you've got the white players arriving into the box.
It is a very good numerical advantage.
But at that point, it was almost not having the fear of who we were playing.
We were just trying to...
become very, very good or perfect in what we were trying to do.
And it wouldn't matter if we were playing at the Emirates, as we've seen a clip where we were playing against Newcastle at home, that they were on the top four, finishing at the end, that it was about how good we could be.
No, I think you develop that belief.
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