{"id":4978,"date":"2025-03-10T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2025-03-10T05:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:26:52","slug":"sgwpl-30-possession-albwt-mar-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/?p=4978","title":{"rendered":">> [SGWPL] 30% Possession ALBWT | Mar 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest examples of teams winning despite having only 30% possession include PSG 0-1 Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 (5 Mar) and Nottingham Forrest 1-0 Manchester City (8 Mar). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Liverpool, ceding that much possession to a pacey PSG side was probably a conscious tactical choice made specifically for that game &#8212; they could have been more aggressive with possession if they wanted to. For Nottingham Forrest, it was business as usual and their preferred way to roll. Crucially, 30% possession and defence in numbers allowed both teams to shut out the opposition and then leverage their transitional qualities to win the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does ALBWT have the DNA to play 30% possession football? They certainly have speedy transitional players like ALBWT No.10 Maisarah and No.18 Takashima. It all begins with acknowledging the nature of the game at hand: playing against teams like LCSWT is like playing in a cup final, where defence is paramount and conceding a goal is a mountain-sized problem to overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And at this point, it&#8217;s not even theoretical &#8212; GIWT has already demonstrated that 30% possession football works against LCSWT. Sometimes, you just have to tell yourself: &#8220;Look, it&#8217;s just for this one game. Next game we go on a scoring spree, okay?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest examples of teams winning despite having only 30% possession include PSG 0-1 Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 (5 Mar) and Nottingham Forrest 1-0 Manchester City (8 Mar). For Liverpool, ceding that much possession to a pacey PSG side was probably a conscious tactical choice made specifically for that game [&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":[14,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sgwpl","category-memos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","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=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4983,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}