asredastheycome
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When did this become the favoured terminology for teams sitting deep and packing there defence. Never heard it used before this season so who was first to use it.
Don't like it.
Don't like it.
Low Block
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Colgates_shaving_foam
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It Is vital to utilise aggressive transitions when countering a side deploying the low block. To counter their counter. Playing in the half spaces.
Or something.
Or something.
tonybiriyani
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Low block, high press, xG etc 
Linthorpe_Exile
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In the hole... seems to have fallen out of fashion
atypical_boro
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Because people just call it #10 now.
It annoys me as back when we had shirts 442 and 1-11 players often didn’t play in the positions that those numbers are now attributed to.
#6? Centre half as often as defensive midfield, if not more.
Weirdly, no one uses the terms #7 and #11 because there seems to be a feeling that outside rights and outside lefts don't exist anymore because they cut in more now and don’t take it to the byline as much.
I can’t bring myself to say “low block”. It just sounds like people trying too hard to over complicate football and make it sound scientific. It may not mean exactly the same as “park the bus” but it isn’t any different to “sitting deep”. “Park the bus” was always a humorous/light-hearted description too.
Dybuk
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I'm still a fan
italianjob
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Offside. What's that all about?
asredastheycome
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But who started using low block.
Gerry the hairdo
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We should invent our own nonsense football jargon and then use it so it becomes the norm. For example: "We need a horizontal mambo across the middle"
Colgates_shaving_foam
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I've already started using horizontal mambo as replacement for midfield box.
It'll be common usage by next season.
northernrower
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It's trendy.
Inverted full backs is another.
Inverted full backs is another.
Andy_W
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The thing is, when it was numbered 1-11, the no 10 didn't really play in the "no 10 role", as the last time 1-11 was used was before the premiership, nearly everyone was playing 4-4-2 then, or the alternate was 5 at the back, which left no room for a no 10.
The no 10 more came about to actually counter the flat lines of a 4-4-2 I think, I think we first really used it with Juninho, as far as I can remember.
I don't mind "Low block" and low block's are used by a lot of teams now (we even did it v Swansea), it's like the standard tactic, but teams doing this often try and counter quickly. The old school parking the bus never really tried to get out of their own half, it was seen as more negative I think.
Corcaigh_the_Cat
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asredastheycome
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Thanks for all the replies so far. Thought I was in a majority of one.
viv_andersons_nana
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They’ve always been in the game but sort of confined to ‘foreign football’. Argentina, Spain, they have always referred to the 6, or 8, as those numbers indicate positions on the field. Players may change but numbers signal specific roles.
As more foreign coaches and their philosophies take root here, so does their football parlance.
I think ‘low block’ is a Rafa Benitez thing, or he used it here first, it’s probably a translation of ‘defend deep’ in Spanish. We had a thread about it literally just two weeks ago. Mourinho has imparted so much into football discourse in England as well. ‘Park the bus’ was his and it lives on.
There’s a fluidity of language in the game. It doesn’t really bother me but the key thing is to separate those who are using it because it’s a natural way for them to articulate something and those who do it to try and sound clever.
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