Tactical Changes in Football Strategy

If you are winning 1-0, for example, and you are playing a 4-4-2, let's say, or 4-3-3,

and you change a midfielder or a striker, and you put a defender in the last 10-15 minutes,

and you are playing with a back five all of a sudden,

because you saw from outside that they are playing with really high full backs, or whatever reason,

you are doing it for a reason from the outside, but inside, the players,

you see that he's taken a striker off, he's put a defensive player on,

so automatically, your mindset is, oh, the coach wants us to defend, we have to sit back,

and you attract pressure, and you invite them to have the ball more,

and you invite them to attack you more, and to be more dangerous,

and the more they are on your pitch, yeah, one day it can happen that you can kill them on counter-attack

and score the second goal, but 80-90% of the time, it backfires,

because you invite pressure, and there's a penalty, there's a little free kick, cross, rebound,

and this is the thing that sometimes I feel that the coach has had this growth into the game

that is making the players a little bit insecure.