What changed Graham Potter to West Ham? Tactical flexibility already key to the new Hammers chief | Football news
The Premier Ligast side with a new manager and a new style – the rear three, attacking the wings and a couple not in the 10th behind the front man.
No, it’s not the one. While Ruben spent his introductory games trying to try his players in his philosophy at Man UTD, Graham Potter works the opposite in East London.
Finally, Potter provides what West Ham fans promised when Julen Lopetegui took over from David Moyes in the summer.
Let’s not stay too long at his unfortunate reign of 22 games, but it took several weeks for Potter’s predecessor to show more than ice signs of progress on the new approach. In four games, a new man has already started to break down the script and start over and over.
As you would expect from the pottery team, the passes are up. The average possession increased by almost 10 percent. The number of 10 or more passage number is rocketed by almost half.
Still, it’s not that much style set, how much adaptability within that potter frame. Tactical shades that fans thought to Moyes was missing, which Lopetegui, for one or the other, never had to show. It is not surprising when his Brighton side lined up in 13 different initial formations in 38 games in the last whole season at the club.
It only took nine minutes of his introductory game to West Ham for Lucas Paquet, who until that moment ended the desperate season to bend in the box and fired them in front of Aston Villa. Even after one training session as the main coach, he did not fear significant adjustments.
Potter played a conceived four in the first game, handing Oliver Scares full of debut in the left back. A brave move by itself. Bolder was that Cryscensio Summerville and Scare played effectively as wings, stretching the villa in wide areas while Aaron Wan-Bissak crept as a third central back in possession.
Return to halftime after Summerville’s injury ultimately muffled the fire of West Ham to a point that they never recovered, but provided enough encouragement for Potter to be – and to make a quick influence.
Of course, that was not so ordinary navigation. West Ham has since won only one of the three in the Premier League, but the direction of travel is clear, and Potter mixed things to a good effect.
Hammers scored three goals from four shots – but two “big chances” in the next game, a 3-2 win over Fulham.
They fought against Crystal Palace, and they did not help them red card for the second half for Konstantinos Mavropanos, but recovered with their best performance, still in the second trip to Villa Park last weekend, where only Point were frustrated after the slow start.
Paqueta continued after that light start and looks back at a player who was last season. With a Full -circle Nicklas, I was injured, Potter distributed it as a false 9 and returned it to the types of dangerous areas in which he succeeds, due to the confused and unregulated role handed over to him by Lopetegui.
Of the widely reported blurred training sessions and team leaves who discovered the players just hours before the start, Potter players are already watching at home in his methods.
Just as he did regularly in Brighton, Potter can make square wedges in round holes – for example, three Vladimir Coufal, Max Kilman and Aaron Cresswell – in a well -glued machine.
They are not the most convincing trio on paper, but the wide focus of the wide center was to support Emerson and Wan-Bissak wide, even if it means that he leaves one-vs-one to Ollie Watkins or the last Jhon Duran.
This helped to play in the largest exhibition of Potter’s adaptability so far. Paqueta enjoyed more touching touches than in any game throughout the season, but she was a manager of the courage to identify Aaron Wan-Bissak as her strongest creative threat that made a difference.
Exactly 50 percent of West Hama attacks down on their right flank while Potter made the main ball West Ham West Ham against Villa’s compact structure, with Coufal occupied by Jacob Ramsey in support and created regular overload.
Six crosses – again, a high season – and two chances came from the wing, as well as a side role in the Hammers goal, which accelerated Emerson, who similarly stretched the hosts on a distant side to nod at the well -deserved second half.
What will follow the following as Potter returns to your old Chelsea club Football on Monday night?? Unlike Moyes, or even Lopetegui, its tactical fluid style is difficult to specify before time or even for 90 minutes. That’s the whole idea in itself.
Because what changed Potter in the London stadium? Less than a month, little of everything. Not because he is fascinated by the implementation of the placed style, but precisely because it is not.
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