Players will press if the manager tells them to, especially if the result of not pressing is sitting on the bench or in the stands. Gone are the days of players like Yakubu who only run when they get inside the 18 yard box. You basically just said it with Bolasie. A player who does press, who is aggressive, has all but stopped that side of his game. He is still direct on the ball, but his work rate has dropped. Thats what concerns me the most. He should have been the leading example for the other wingers. Both Gerry and Mirallas started pre-season working their nuts off but now they are sitting on the bench and Lennon, who is nothing like a Koeman player, starting ahead of them (albeit for just one game).
He can play how he wants to here with the players we have. Much worse players can do better than ours have shown. Borough were streets ahead of us when playing Chelsea. A bad workman blames his tools etc. What we lack has nothing to do with the individual qualities of players, it has to do with hard work, discipline and attitude and that comes from the top down. The majority of players are putting in a shift but that effort is being misused. I wouldn't disagree with some players lacking discipline under Martinez but that isn't something that can be labelled to any one of the starting 11 against Swansea and that showed as in the second half we barely gave them a kick. We have started almost every game at a snails pace when we should be setting the tone in that time, we could and should have been behind in almost every game this season. West Ham could have been 2 or 3 up, Defoe had a great chance for Sunderland, Swansea had a couple of chances before they were given the penalty too. This comes from the manager/management.