In Might of final 12 months, former Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca mentioned: “We’re not adequate for transition video games. If you happen to see our worst moments of the season, or video games we struggled, they had been all video games the place the sport grew to become transition.”
This quote helps clarify why Chelsea could have run much less on objective, significantly within the first a part of the season. Instructing his crew to play slower whereas dominating possession would have created fewer turnovers and transitions resulting in Chelsea needing to run huge distances much less usually.
Enjoying extra slowly on the ball in idea could have helped Chelsea’s gamers relaxation through the sport earlier than then urgent extra intensely for shorter durations.
This season, Manchester Metropolis are prime when it comes to the typical distance run per Premier League sport.
Though this seems to be a optimistic stat, after their 3-0 win in opposition to West Ham earlier this season, Guardiola mentioned: “I like [how much we run], final season we did not have that. But it surely’s not sufficient, we’ve to play higher [so] we might run much less.”
Studying between the traces, Guardiola appeared happy on the improve in dedication however most likely wished his facet to play in a much less end-to-end vogue, as a substitute searching for extra management.
