This is a good explanation. However I can think of another one, which arises from the fact that pundits snd chatter generally are decades behind and fail to take tactics nearly seriously enough.
I think you can say this season that, when defending, we have made some pretty clunky and costly mistakes. Leaving Vardy free against Leicester. Letting Bowen turn and cross for West Ham. Back in the day, these would have been indications of a leaky defence.
However, the way we play, as you have indicated, means that these sorts of situations only arise rarely. The end result is that we actually ship few goals.
That is, our entire way of playing, ridiculed as ludicrously open, is in fact brilliant at reducing the number of times the opposition create any threat at our end. Brilliant that is from a defensive point of view.
This is a good explanation. However I can think of another one, which arises from the fact that pundits snd chatter generally are decades behind and fail to take tactics nearly seriously enough.
I think you can say this season that, when defending, we have made some pretty clunky and costly mistakes. Leaving Vardy free against Leicester. Letting Bowen turn and cross for West Ham. Back in the day, these would have been indications of a leaky defence.
However, the way we play, as you have indicated, means that these sorts of situations only arise rarely. The end result is that we actually ship few goals.
That is, our entire way of playing, ridiculed as ludicrously open, is in fact brilliant at reducing the number of times the opposition create any threat at our end. Brilliant that is from a defensive point of view.