A more balanced approach, which seems to have worked. When I played too possession based we created nothing, when I played quickly just meant losing the ball to deep blocks.
Play out of defence + lower tempo keeps the ball well, pass into space encourages through balls to the attacking forwards but since not using more direct passing it’s not constant. The team shape also helps with keeping the ball, players are all close to each other. High press is to win the ball back and harass but counter press was too much.
Like I say it was a lot of of trial and error but if it works it works and results been speaking for themselves and the football has been great, lots of team goals.
My guess is that it’s allowing the roles to play a bigger impact and lets the players be the ones to make the decisions on when to press and what type of passes to make.