Analysing Nancy’s attacking tactics should give hope to Celtic fans – even if examples of them working as he would hope have not been common in his early days in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Celtic have improved in their past two games – creating a huge number of clear goalscoring chances in the defeat at Dundee United and then the home win against Aberdeen. <\/p>\n
Against Aberdeen, they had 71% of the ball, 31 shots, an expected goals tally of 4.53, and hit the post four times. <\/p>\n
Even against a side reduced to 10 men, those numbers are staggering, and it would be fair to say a mixture of bad luck, the quality of the finishing and excellent saves restricted them to three goals.<\/p>\n
What bodes well for Celtic is their attacking performances look to be gradually improving under Nancy.<\/p>\n
Fans will need to show patience, however, as developing the relationships that enable these tactics to work takes time.<\/p>\n
Nancy encourages freedom for his players to express themselves, which has an upside in the long run but takes longer to bear fruit in the short term.<\/p>\n
During his time at Columbus Crew, when asked about structure and freedom in his side, he said: “For me, there is no creativity in structure. Within [our] concepts, players can move freely.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analysing Nancy’s attacking tactics should give hope to Celtic fans – even if examples of them working as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-205117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}