It's a bit odd in a sense that Coady is the one with the most negative mentality in those situations, given than he's played a fair bit of senior football as a central midfield you'd expect it would've been more difficult to shift the mentality where he can put himself about a bit more and take more risk to win the ball knowing there is another line of defence behind him. I know he's much better rehearsed in that defensive role over the last few years but still seems strange that he's the least likely, when surrounded by people who have only ever played as defenders for the most part, to make the mistake of being too keen to try and steal the ball, leaving himself over exposed and out of position.
They need to balance it out sooner rather than later though if they want to be more assertive in games going forwards, was much easier to assess with the old low block as it was nearly always a case of dropping off, holding your line and keeping yourself between ball and goal. That doesn't work if you're trying to play higher up the pitch, you just end up stretching the pitch to the advantage of your opponent with huge gaps between the lines to be exploited, which we've seen happen already in some games this season. They need to be confident at times in pushing up as a unit and playing for offsides. Though it's a lot easier to have the confidence in doing that if you've got either or both of i) some pace in the backline to recover if it goes wrong ii) a keeper who's sharp enough off his line to pick off any overhit passes in behind, neither of which Wolves really have at the moment.
and how come Arsenals chances 'should have' been goals but Killmans header isn't viewed as such ?
