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Aston Villa’s defensive set up vs Brighton: When Brighton had possession ~20/30 yards from their goal (when Steele wasn’t involved), Villa defended in a fairly standard 4-4-2. Th...
The diamond formation was far from ideal against Brighton. Fernandes (10) was outnumbered by Brighton’s two DMs & Casemiro was badly isolated (as McTominay/Eriksen were covering B...
When watching Aston Villa this season I have noticed that their press is better over on their right hand side than it is on their left. Take this example against Liverpool. Luiz...
A nice example of why the deep full back is an effective build up method, especially when playing with a creative/dangerous No.8 (like De Bruyne/Odegaard or - in this example - Ped...
- Who scores the goals? Rashford - Great. So we play him CF? Well he might actually be more of a threat from the left - Ok, so we need to buy a CF? Yes. - Who creates the chances...
It’s interesting when you reverse engineer a sides tactical approach: - Who scores the goal? Haaland - Who provides him with chances? De Bruyne - How do we create space for KDB? K...
When playing the standard 4-3-3 formation, the key relationships were often between full back, CM & Winger. This triangle was the creative hub and - with successful switches of p...
I think it is a bit of a myth that Guardiola has transitioned from small, technical players to more physical profiles. Back in 2009 he often played Abidal at LB (so Alves could p...
As he has done a thesis on it… A little breakdown of this one v one involving Mitoma & Ben White. Mitoma takes a couple of small touches to the left then looks as tho he will sh...
De Zerbi had a fairly simple solution to Erik Ten Hag’s narrow defensive shape last night. In the first half Brighton were generally their normal build up shape with the full bac...
I thought I would try and give my (simple) version of how teams evolved towards the box Midfield & why it helps teams dominate possession. Below is the basic 4-3-3 that caused te...
Arsenal played well today, exploiting the spaces left by Leicester City down the flanks. Zinchenko always inverted alongside Jorginho, outnumbering Praet (AM) 2v1 (Leicester City...