📌 Arne Slot's Feyenoord Build-Up Organization:
• Inviting The Opposition To Press
• Triangles On Side
• Intention on one side to leave the winger 1v1 on the other side
• Switching The Play
• Receiving The Ball BTL
• Penetration Behind The Defense
📌 Unai Emery's Aston Villa Defensive Structure:
• Aston Villa defend in 4-4-2 against Manchester City's 3-2-5.
• Manchester City have 5v4 overload against Aston Villa's back-line.
• When City's winger receives the ball and the 8 starts to run to do ++
an underlap, Aston Villa's CM starts to follow and cover him and make the back five, so Aston Villa will no longer have an underload against City's attacking five.
• If CM didn't follow him and the CB went to 8 who makes the underlap, then one of City players would be free ++
After that LB Angelino crossed and Galatasaray created a very good chance. The fake run of LW Kerem Akturkoglu was also very important to create space for crossing.
📌How To Find Solution Against An Out Of Possession Strategy?
The opposition analysis is very important to win games. It's an example from Champions League game between Galatasaray - Copenhagen to understand how opposition analysis works. Hope you enjoy reading! @TheS_Resource
Also the 3 forward players who were in charge of marking the 2 CMs of Gala in the center were only marking one CM, and they were marking anyone like the wide CM. So the CM who acted as half-back could receive the ball freely and then play to FB who was another free man. After ++
📌 Arne Slot's Feyenoord Build-Up Organization:
• Inviting The Opposition To Press
• Triangles On Side
• Intention on one side to leave the winger 1v1 on the other side
• Switching The Play
• Receiving The Ball BTL
• Penetration Behind The Defense
📌Why is Making Back Pass to GK Important? | Xabi Alonso's Bayern Leverkusen Goal Analysis:
- To extend the opposition's defensive length.
- To create space between the lines.
join the attack as a full-back with a lot of space. After some passes in the triangle on the edge of the box, Arsenal found Odegaard in Zone 14, and Odegaard was able to put the ball in the net with a fantastic finish. (3/3)
📌Erik Ten Hag's Manchester United matched Arsenal's two number 8s, Havertz and Odegaard, with pivots Casemiro and Eriksen. Arteta took advantage of this by giving Havertz a role in the center to manipulate the opposition. Havertz dropped deep and (1/3)
pulled the opposition on top of him to create space for Martinelli between the lines. In this match, I believe Arteta did not deploy Zinchenko as an inverted-back to allow Havertz to get deeper and use him as a pivot. Using Havertz as a deep midfielder allowed Zinchenko to (2/3)