Width is a big deal in modern football and you find that when a team can stretch the opposition both across the pitch and along it they have a very good chance of winning the game.
It’s these principles on which we’ve seen Leicester win the league last season in playing two out and out widemen that could either go outside or come inside and it’s something we’re seeing the top teams doing this season.
Liverpool, for example, who are now top of the league, signed Sadio Mane in the summer in a bid to add pace and width to their team and it has surely had the desired result with the club one of the most prominent attackers in the league.
In second, we’ve got Chelsea who now play with wing-backs under Antonio Conte and that has certainly served them well since changing their tactics earlier in the season.
It’s an old tactic, but getting the ball wide always creates chances and excites and we reckon West Ham need to do more of that by Slaven Bilic looking at some of these five who can go down the left…
