The difference between good and bad coaching

 
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By David V., 10 Oct 2009 The Crowd is a Roar Pro

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Last night we saw two A-League games, Melbourne Victory Vs Sydney FC and Perth Glory Vs Adelaide United, where the differences between good coaching and bad coaching have come to light. More specifically, the difference between good, flexible tactics and bad, inflexible ones.

It’s taken time for Vitezslav Lavicka to get it right at Sydney FC.

They’ve done the business this season without playing brilliantly, or playing the sort of slick football a coach of his type is expected to deliver. But on the night, he finally managed to deliver by deploying Alex Brosque and Mark Bridge in a system that gets the best out of these two undeniably able strikers.

Sydney’s passing game, last night, was the best they’ve ever had and as good as anyone in this league has delivered to date. And it worked a treat as they were very much in control in cruising to a 3-0 win in Melbourne.

Contrast with Adelaide United.

Aurelio Vidmar, a master of anti-football, stubbornly persists with a system guaranteed to bore into submission, failing to get the best out of strikers like Lloyd Owusu.

Indeed, Vidmar is demonstrating the same arrogance and inflexibility that proved the downfall of Newcastle’s Gary Van Egmond in the last year – though Con Constantine’s mismanagement of the Jets has hurt, Gary Van Egmond’s inflexibility and poor man management played its part.

In fact, it does prove that playing slavishly to a system – any system – is a sure way to get found out. Witness the downfall of many teams whose success came by playing a predictable style, and then struggling once other teams figure them out, or once good players are not replaced.

Once more, the need for a coaching revolution becomes more obvious, and the difference between good coaching and bad coaching was evident in two A-League games. Lavicka demonstrates professionalism and flexibility.

Many more have demonstrated anything but.

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