Should the WSL get underway again this season, there are three teams that will know they have some serious work to do if they want to spend next year in the division. This three-part analysis series will look at Bristol City Women, Birmingham City Women and Liverpool Women, as we look to analyse each team’s defensive and attacking positives and negatives, seeing what each needs to do to survive relegation.
This first article will provide a tactical analysis of Birmingham City Women. In the scout report, we will look at how their defensive set-up often hinders them more than it helps, but also how their attacking tactics allow them to create plenty of goalscoring opportunities. We will also look at the key players that they will look to in order to aid their survival hopes.
Their defence
Firstly, we need to give some thought to their defence. The main problem with it is that they tend to run too far forward, and this then allows their opponents to get in behind them and get shots away. We can see this below.
In both of these examples, against Bristol City Women and Tottenham Hotspur Women, we can see the point above. The lines in between the players show you just how their defence has come forwards, but has left too much space available behind, giving the opponents an opportunity to get in behind and run at goal.
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