Stevie Nicol
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Nowadays what they try to do is to avoid mistakes on their own.
So they try to be safe and secure and therefore they don't try enough, they don't risk enough in order to push the opponent to make mistakes and score goals.
So that's why maybe that's the only time on set pieces that they give their full power to score goals.
But we see that with Arsenal, with the tactic and the amount of players they put in.
We can see that with Crystal Palace, with Chelsea as well.
They don't want to take any risk, don't want to lose the ball.
Therefore, they don't push themselves to push the opponent to make mistakes.
You know, Chaka, it's funny because one of your former teammates at Newcastle, David Ginola, was using that with Arthur George, the coach of Paris Saint-Germain at the time in the beginning of the 90s, where they were scoring goals on corner kick, set pieces, a lot.
putting everybody on the near post like Stevie said.
And David scored so many goals with some others like Rai and George Weah as well.
It was almost impossible to defend against them.
They were putting like four guys in the near post and it was a nightmare for defenders and goalkeepers.
Even they were allowed to punch everybody.
He was a sporting director, but he admitted that he had no clue what he had to do.