World Cup 2018: Trending from Russia

Counter attacks with great pace are vital for success

The importance of speed during counter attacks is more than ever, especially when the opponents narrow the space while defending. Fundamental stuff; but we have not seen that in action from the bigger teams. On the contrary, you can find this strategy being adopted effectively by teams like Nigeria (against Iceland) or even Iceland (against Argentina), etc.

Is it that the big superstars donning the shirts of bigger nations are so tired from the club engagements that they have lost the pace here in the World Cup? Or is it that they have failed to do so because of following the strategy of “first control the game and then try to attack”? I don’t know the answers to the questions. though we all are sure that the coaches and team analysts are thinking of these, hopefully!