(part1)
This formation has never worked for Valencia CF in any shape or form, and having some weird transformations in it as well didn't help one bit either and it just made it more confusing to the players. But I know what Emery was thinking and why he set up the formation as he did. He was planing on playing Maduro so back that in a way it would be only Tino and Banega in the middle with Mathieu and Bruno standing in the middle as playing as wingers and have Jonas come in deep whenever possible when attacking.
Here is an illustration:
The first image is the starting formation, but that formation was fully transformed when defending and attacking. For example when transforming to attack the formation changes to what it is in the second position. As you can see from red arrows the distance from Tino to Banega was huge and not to mention the distance from Tino to Mathieu or Bruno so most of the time the ball ended up circling in the defense for too long until Rami crossed forward or until Bruno came back and got the ball. As it was, Banega did not come back and with Tino unable to bring the ball forward Valencia was forced to play with long crosses that ended up just giving the ball to Sevilla.
In the situations when we did manage some try at an attack our left side was fully exposed. As you can see from the second picture the red arrow from Matheu and the back. Our whole left side was exposed and as we saw Jesus Navasu used this space to get a counter attack and pass the ball to Kanoute who had ample time to slot the ball into the net.
But that wasn't Valencia's only problem. Since Emery wanted the full backs to play as wingers this also left our right side exposed since Bruno was way too slow to came back from attack and his attacking contribution wasn't something to talk about either.
Ultimately it was Emery's fault for the formation and tactical setup and only did he fix it at the start of the second half.
This formation has never worked for Valencia CF in any shape or form, and having some weird transformations in it as well didn't help one bit either and it just made it more confusing to the players. But I know what Emery was thinking and why he set up the formation as he did. He was planing on playing Maduro so back that in a way it would be only Tino and Banega in the middle with Mathieu and Bruno standing in the middle as playing as wingers and have Jonas come in deep whenever possible when attacking.
Here is an illustration:
The first image is the starting formation, but that formation was fully transformed when defending and attacking. For example when transforming to attack the formation changes to what it is in the second position. As you can see from red arrows the distance from Tino to Banega was huge and not to mention the distance from Tino to Mathieu or Bruno so most of the time the ball ended up circling in the defense for too long until Rami crossed forward or until Bruno came back and got the ball. As it was, Banega did not come back and with Tino unable to bring the ball forward Valencia was forced to play with long crosses that ended up just giving the ball to Sevilla.
In the situations when we did manage some try at an attack our left side was fully exposed. As you can see from the second picture the red arrow from Matheu and the back. Our whole left side was exposed and as we saw Jesus Navasu used this space to get a counter attack and pass the ball to Kanoute who had ample time to slot the ball into the net.
But that wasn't Valencia's only problem. Since Emery wanted the full backs to play as wingers this also left our right side exposed since Bruno was way too slow to came back from attack and his attacking contribution wasn't something to talk about either.
Ultimately it was Emery's fault for the formation and tactical setup and only did he fix it at the start of the second half.
