{"id":4454,"date":"2025-03-04T05:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T21:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:21:58","slug":"spl-30-posession-lion-city-sailors-mar-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/?p=4454","title":{"rendered":"[SPL] 30% Posession Lion City Sailors | Mar 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The problem with investing heavily in one particular style of play is that when it comes to playing the games which you <em>really<\/em> need to win &#8212; often against stronger opponents &#8212; you would typically be forced to play the exact opposite of the style you are used to deploying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the AFC Champions League Two group stage, Lion City Sailors averaged 37% possession across six games against her regional peers &#8212; significantly lower than what they are used to in the domestic league. If LCS decided to specialise in patient build-up, possession-based football without developing a more direct, counter-attacking style of play, they would not have progressed far in the prestigious regional competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, the oft-used 5-4-1 system and W\u00fcnder-Uncle Shawal Anuar are equally good at low blocks vis-a-vis playing on the front foot. To this outside observer, LCS are sufficiently drilled to play dimetrically different styles of play, depending on the opposition on matchday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with investing heavily in one particular style of play is that when it comes to playing the games which you really need to win &#8212; often against stronger opponents &#8212; you would typically be forced to play the exact opposite of the style you are used to deploying. During the AFC Champions League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spl-2","category-memos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}