This doesn’t make any sense. Whether the WBs are inverted or not, both the WBs and the 10s still have attacking responsibilities in possession and defensive responsibilities out of possession.
I never say they don’t have those responsibilities. Each of them have attacking/defensive responsibilities but WBs, inverted WB and 10s have different kind of attacking and defensive responsibilities.
You mentioned Quenda or attacking wingback’s attacking ability: ‘’their ability to change the dynamic of a team’s ability to attack. For example, the ability to beat a man can change the dynamic of a teams’s attack and open up an opposing team in a way that might not be reflected by direct assists. ‘’
My response is that those attacking wingback’s attacking abilities you mentioned are what Garnacho and Amad are good at. Due to those attacking abilities, Garnacho and Amad fits Amorim’s wingback’s attacking abilities at sporting. But I don’t see them fit as Amorim’s wingback’s defensive ability because Amorim wants his wingback to join the backline to form back five during defensive transition and IMO this is not something Garnacho and Amad are good at. That’s why I suggested to play inverted wingback so we can play Garnacho or Amad as wide forward so they can use those wingback attacking abilities (that’s what I meant by ‘’to express themselves’’) without forcing them to defend like wingback ‘’forming back five’’ (that’s what I meant by ‘’removing their defensive responsibility as wingback’’).
And you still haven’t addressed the fact that even when “inverted”, Dalot and Mazaraoui still regularly get in to attacking positions, and they are not very effective or productive in those positions.
I have addressed this in best possible way for you to understand by:
- Telling you that as inverted wingback, their attacking responsibility become less in comparison to attacking wingback (again, less or more don’t mean they don’t have responsibility in attack). But they primary will provide balance for the team and allowing our natural winger such as Garnacho/Amad to give them more freedom and express what they are good at. Hence why I said it compliments Garnacho/Amad’s strength, it doesn’t change Amorim’s system, and it compliments our limited budget to allow us to concentrate other areas especially focus on the backbone of the team.
- And included the structure of how this inverted wingback operates (which I mentioned this last week).
Defensive transition:
GK
Inverted RWB - RCB - CB - LCB - LWB
Deep-playmaker - box-to-box
Wide forward - Inside forward
Striker
Attacking transition:
GK
RCB - CB - LCB
Inverted RWB - Deep-playmaker - box-to-box
Wide forward - Inside forward - LWB
Striker
You should also compare Dorgu’s heat map v Sociedad versus Dalot’s. The positions they take up are remarkably similar despite what you say about one being inverted and one not.
During defensive transition, they have the similar positions because they both operate similar like full back join the backline to form back five, which I have mentioned this to you last week.
During attacking transition, they have different position and different responsibility. Dorgu occupied more in the final third zone, while Dalot occupied more in the between, which exactly what I described about the inverted wingback has less attacking responsibility than the attacking wingback and they provide more balance.
Their heat maps fit the description of what I demonstrated in their role and the attacking and defensive structure.