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It's very obvious that Kimmich is the main point of buildup whenever he plays, but it also opens up such easy counterplay that simply wasn't there in the Dortmund game
All you have to do is press Kimmich, he will find a solution 98/100 times, but the 2 times he doesn't you get a big chance (or a red like vs Darmstadt)
Idk how to fix it, not even a real #6 would help here, maybe he has to drop even further (Alonso style) to sit between the 2 CBs and have the coverage there
You fix it by stopping the passes to Kimmich just outside the 18 when he's facing his own goal. He immediately gets pressed from behind and instead of going right back to Neuer, he tries to play his way out of it.
If he can't handle that, you have to stop doing it. I cringe every time I see that pass and there's a press coming.
The thing is, he's had multiple world class coaches with world class analytics teams and it's still happening, at this point it surely isn't fixable and/or a desirable outcome in the eyes of the coaches. Like surely this can't still be a coincidence after all these years of this exact same thing happening, right?
The gamble might be that he unlocks more situations that ultimately beat out the risk of a massive turnover. Funny thing is with Upamecano/Kim starting, you have two excellent distributors of the ball anyway, but there still is an over-reliance on Kimmich in buildup.