Last game reminded me a lot of my truck I bought last year. Back in the day vehicles used carburetors and they get clogged pretty easily. The carburetor mixed the fuel and air so the engine had the right mixture to run properly. If the mixture was off a little, or a jet was a little clogged the vehicle would usually still run, but not well. For running around town and doing basic off road stuff the truck did fine and the parts functioned well enough to get around.

 I enjoyed the truck for basic stuff and basic obstacles. I sold it to my brother who drove it everyday and did some very demanding off-roading in it and the carburetor kept getting clogged and the truck wouldn't run well in these circumstances. Eventually the truck broke down. Not for lack of effort, but merely because the parts weren't functioning well together and couldn't handle the strain of more demanding situations. Our team functions very well against basic teams and we have played a couple of them this year, but what is it going to take to function well in demanding situations? What is stopping us from having smooth transitions from the back to middle to front?

How many of you have done research on the 4-3-3 system?

Here is a very basic interpretation of the 4-3-3 - it's all about triangles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXWq34XByjc

Here's another one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv5RDv8KbEQ
Germany played a very similar system to destroy Brazil 4-2-3-1 which is what I was telling our center forwards to do yesterday. Watch the game and see how they are rotating their midfielders and wing defenders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0hcrqf4Af0 I couldn't find it in English, sorry.

"It is often said (with good reason) that games are not won on paper, since there is no one given tactical system that is inherently better than the next – it’s all about team dynamics."

I'm not asking you to like the system or be the best at it, I'm just asking you do your best to learn it. I'm asking you to do your best to work on your foot skills and vision at home. We are not going to be state champions by just working hard at practice. Do you have a goal for the season? Have you written it down? Defense do you have a goal, offense, etc.? What is our team goal besides winning state? Once we get the right mixture to fire to full capacity, you'll be amazed what this team is capable of.

Text "carburetor" to me if you have read this.