[THREAD] - What's De Zerbi ball?
Roberto De Zerbi is the new Brighton manager. After saying goodbye to one of the best young managers in the world, Graham Potter, The Seagulls are welcoming another one of the best young managers in the world.
Let's see his football idea.
Why does Guardiola play John Stones as a DM in possession?
Technical quality, coolness on the ball, body orientation when receiving, ability to handle pressure coming from behind.
[THREAD] - Tactical Analysis of Inter - Barcelona
Inter puts an end to its period of crisis with a victory against a greeat opponent, thanks to a top defensive performance; Barça relapses into the usual problems against a back 5.
Let's go deep into the analysis!
[THREAD] Tactical Analysis of Barcelona - Manchester United
Frantic and chaotic match in which individual mistakes have been decisive. Let's delve into the tactical aspects of the game.
I'll mainly focus on Barcelona, but it'd be impossible to ignore the gameplan of Man United.
I find it quite ironic that Guardiola finally manages to win the Champions League in the very decisive match that his team played worst and in which the opponents probably deserved more.
De Zerbi's most peculiar pattern of play is building up from the back. He gives great care to this aspect of the game, and his teams' build-up are very original and interesting. De Zerbi is often criticized and considered a dogmatic on this topic. This is his opinion.
[THREAD] - Tactical Analysis of Barcelona - Inter
A thrilling match. Barça found solutions to the problems faced last week, but Inter were good at keeping their heads in the game and taking advantage of the many spaces conceded by the Catalans. Let's see the match in the detail.
LA PRIMERA DE TITULAR DE PABLO TORRE
En un partido de escasa importancia, toda la atención de los aficionados del Barcelona se centró en el 2003 Pablo Torre, en su primer partido como titular desde su llegada en verano.
Analizamos su partido!
[Short Tactical Thread] Manchester City - Brighton
A bit late, I know, but I wanted to share with you some of the tactical ideas brought by Pep Guardiola and Roberto De Zerbi. Since the two managers share many principles, I was really intrigued by this match.
Pep Guardiola: "I started to watch some minutes from Inter Milan, and I’m really impressed with what they do; the body language, and many things…" [via
@BeanymanSports
]
Difference in Manchester United pressing between first and second half against Barcelona.
1H: LW in between RCB and RB but closer to RCB, while LB stays back. Barça's RB free to receive. On the weak side, RB follows LW inside, leaving space for Barça's LB wide to attack space.
Did you know that Brighton also have an out-of-possession phase beside the build-up phase? Jokes aside, quick thread to analyze the quite interesting De Zerbi's OOP strategy against Arsenal.
@11OnceSport
This is my favorite goal scored by Sassuolo with De Zerbi, it depicts perfectly what I'm trying to say about the importance and the effectiveness of his build-up play.
I like watching (and rewatching like I'm doing right now) Real Madrid play because they make me feel ignorant not good enough as an analyst, too anchored in the search for structure and pattern. This tells me something about myself as a person in general, not only as an analyst.
[SMALL THREAD] - HOW RAYO VALLECANO BEAT REAL MADRID
The game played by Rayo Vallecano yesterday against Real Madrid is the first magnum opus of Andoni Iraola's young career. Intense pressing and clear ideas in possession that highlight technical quality.
Let's analyze it!
Apparently City playing with a 3-4-3 (or 3-2-2-3) with Walker and Aké as wide centre-backs, Rodri and Bernardo forming the double pivot, Gundogan and KDB in the half-spaces and Foden and Cancelo high providing width.
📝[THREAD] Che giocatore è Raoul Bellanova?
Sembra essere partita una vera e propria asta di mercato sull'esterno destro scuola Milan, con l'
#Inter
che sembra essere la più vicina ad accaparrarselo.
Ma che giocatore è
#Bellanova
? È da Inter? Scopriamolo con questo thread.
A volte ho la sensazione che non si parli abbastanza del coraggio di
#Pioli
e delle sue moderne e interessanti proposte tattiche.
Qua vediamo un tentativo di costruzione dal basso della Fiorentina: Cabral riceve sulla trq dif ed è preso da Kalulu, Tomori è addirittura su Duncan.
UNION BERLIN PRESSING
Fischer's team is super interesting especially for the way they press.
- 5-3-2 compact midblock;
- Force opponents wide with 2 narrow strikers;
- Pressing triggered: RCM on LB, DM shifts on DM, LCM on AM, RWB on Wide Left PLayer, RCB on player in the LHS.
I can't believe the feedback I'm receiving for the thread on De Zerbi, I didn't check Twitter for like an hour and got thousands of new interactions.
Thank you all, truly.
Why Jordi Alba instead of Balde?
Because he's a tremendous passer and cutter. Gavi plays in the half-space and attracts Wan-Bissaka all over the pitch creating space for Jordi Alba's cuts, who then has all the time and space to make a good pass/cross
- Wide 4-2-4 build-up
- Attracting man-to-man pressure (Partey and Xhaka too)
- Ball side winger dropping to attract fullback; weak side winger providing width
- Playing ball in the space between midfield and defense
- Alternate strikers movements to create space
During Manchester City - Bayern Munich many (myself included) were surprised by Guardiola's decision to change the defensive set-up OOP: Stones RCB with Akanji RB, the opposite of what we've seen in recent weeks. The reason? City's structure in the first pressing phase.
Rodri as a
#6
in a system like City's is a player on the edge of perfection for me. Tempo, quality on the ball, tactical awareness, positioning, defensive contribution, physicality, aerial duels. He's got it all basically.
I think it's obviously too early to evaluate Mudryk, for now I want to remain cautious in my judgment and just say that he's the best player I have ever seen
De Zerbi is one of the most clear and fine example of a position play-oriented manager. He wants his team to maintain possession of the ball, playing it from the back, counterpressing when it's lost and attacking the box with many players occupying the five offensive channels.
3 ways to overload a back 5 exemplified by Germany vs Scotland:
1. Occupy space between lines, keep two players on the same vertical line to prevent jump from the CB (fixed by ST) and find a player between the lines
Curiosità: Vlahovic ha toccato solo 3 palloni nella prima mezz'ora, 0 nella metà campo offensiva. Nelle posizioni medie risulta quindi in linea con Rugani e Bremer.
In the action that lead to the penalty kick for Argentina, the defensive line of Croatia makes a huge mistake: when the passer is free ("palla aperta" in Italian, which can be translated with "open ball" ) the defensive line should run back as Lovren does. Gvardiol tried offside.
Non trarrei conclusioni generali sul livello del calcio italiano sulla base di questi ottavi di finale. È ovviamente bello vedere tre squadre italiane nei quarti (non accadeva dal 2005/06), ma onestamente penso che si tratti di una semplice coincidenza.
[THREAD] Analisi tattica di Napoli - Liverpool
La partita di mercoledì notte al Maradona verrà ricordata a vita dai tifosi del Napoli, una prestazione sontuosa contro una delle squadre più forti al mondo. Vediamo nel dettaglio com'è andata.
There would be much more to cover, but I'll stop here. I hope you enjoyed the thread.
Like, RT and Follow are greatly appreciated ❤️
Help me make sure the thread reaches Brighton fans!
✏️[THREAD] - What’s your Destiny, Udogie? pt.1
Tottenham has signed for the 2023/24 season Destiny Udogie from Udinese, one of the best talents in Serie A. With this first thread I'll try to show you what kind of player he is offensively. In the next one I'll cover his defense.
This is my Top XI, made not devoid of indecisions. I played smart by taking advantage of Griezmann's 8/10 hybrid role so that I could add an extra midfielder.
📝[THREAD] - Il fit di Memphis Depay alla Juventus
#Depay
sembra essere molto vicino alla
#Juventus
. Con questo thread voglio mostrare che tipo di giocatore è come può adattarsi alla squadra di Allegri.
N.B. Mi soffermerò solo sul Depay visto al Barça.
18° per xG
+20 di overperformance per xGA
20° per PPDA (13.72, la 19° è a 10.94)
20° per Possesso Palla (39%, la 19° ha il 44%)
Cosa sta cucinando questo demone?
Why TAA as an inverted fullback and what Liverpool changed in the Second Half
What stood out to everyone watching Liverpool yesterday was Alexander-Arnold playing as a inverted fullback. My guess is that Klopp wanted to ease the creation of a 1vs1 between Salah and Zinchenko.
Arsenal is one of the best teams around in creating numerical superiority on the last line. These frames are taken from the 2-1 and 3-1 goals.
Notice how in the 1st frame the player providing width on the right is White (RB), while in the 2nd Tierney (LB) does it one the left.
Barcelona pressing with Busquets on Camavinga, FDJ on Modric and Pedri on Rudiger. Benzema coming deep is a huge problem because RM fluid position on the left (Kroos as LB, Mendy wide, Vinicius central, Benzema deep) prevents Koundé to jump on him (Vinicius pins him)
I'll mainly analyze his Sassuolo from the 2020/21 season, which I consider the highest expression of his football. In that season Sassuolo finished 8th, tied on points with Roma who qualified for the Conference League which they then won. Sassuolo scored 64 goals and conceded 56
IL MILAN HA GIOCATO DA MILAN
Breve thread per evidenziare alcune situazioni interessanti proposte dal Milan nella gara di ieri, molte delle quali hanno permesso di intravedere un ritorno alle origini per la squadra di Pioli.
Qualche frame interessante sulla Juve in costruzione di oggi. Partiamo con Locatelli che si nasconde continuamente dietro a Caputo e non si muove nel tentativo di dare una linea di passaggio ai compagni.
This frame was taken around the 67th minute, when Saudi Arabia were already winning 2-1. I wanted to highlight how they managed to keep the defensive line really high (basically on the halfway line) especially when Argentina played backwards, also man-marking on the strong side.
Look at this: playing the ball from the back, Juventus increasing the pressing, centre-back plays directly towards the striker that with his movement attracts a centre-back creating space in behind, good first touch, space on the weak side, 1vs1, good opportunity.
The 4 men midfield is a great resource when you can play Busquets, FDJ, Pedri and Gavi at the same time, but if you gotta play with Kessié and Sergi Roberto a change of shape might be the better choice
[THREAD] - Ancelotti's strategy to limit Haaland and Manchester City's conservative approach
Limiting a player of this level demands taking rather extreme measures at the cost of leaving something else to the opponents.
@11OnceSport
PSG playing super narrow to prevent Bayern's numerical superiority centrally. Bayern keep Cancelo and Coman really wide, they need to pass the ball and switch side quickly to catch PSG off guard before they have the opportunity to slide horizontally.
As expected De Zerbi chose not to change things too much, but this structure is similar to a Napoli - Sassuolo from 20/21 where RDZ played with a back 3:
- 3+2 structure in the build up
- 2 players in the half spaces behind the opponent's midfield
- WBs providing width
Bayern Munich's gameplan vs Union Berlin
- Numerical superiority in the build-up phase (3vs2 + Kimmich as a DM)
- Muller attracting Ladouni away from his zone while Goretzka occupies space created
- Numerical superiority in the last line
Theo Hernández has a built-in battery: first he anticipates the striker, then he presses the midfielder, the centre-back and even the goalkeeper forcing him to play long.
✏️[THREAD]: POSSESSO PALLA E DOMINIO TERRITORIALE
Quali squadre in Serie A hanno un possesso palla efficace? E chi sterile?
Per capirlo ho combinato il Possesso Palla e il Field Tilt (vedi tweet successivo)
Sopra la linea: possesso pericoloso
Sotto la linea: possesso sterile
Una giornata indimenticabile. Mai nella mia vita avrei pensato di partecipare al funerale di Gigi Riva dall'interno rappresentando la squadra del mio cuore.
Per evitare di dimenticarmi, vi condivido questo grafico che ho fatto qualche giorno fa sui giocatori U21 per Passaggi Progressivi e Passaggi Chiave per 90 minuti. Vi dico solo una cosa: attenzione al nuovo acquisto del Milan Yacine
#Adli
.
Vi sorprende qualcuno?
Prima dell'inizio della stagione ho espresso delle perplessità sulla possibile coesistenza di Gosens e Dumfries nell'Inter di Inzaghi, in quanto esterni molto impattanti nell'ultimo terzo sul lato debole ma non di grande utilità in costruzione. Come risolvere questo problema?
Non è un caso se tutti i centravanti della Francia abbiano fatto male. È la normale conseguenza di un approccio così rinunciatario che isola totalmente gli attaccanti estraniandoli dal gioco. Allo stesso modo, non è un caso che facesse bene un giocatore come Giroud... 1/2