Tactical Analysis: José Bordalás' Valencia

Asked to name a managerial villain from the Iberian peninsula, the casual European football fan would likely name Diego Simeone.

A master of the dark arts, dressed in an entirely black getup and often responsible for football that even his admirers would call pragmatic.

More regular observers of La Liga will know that José Bordalás has long since usurped Simeone as the lightning rod for moral editorials on the way football should be.

Sometimes Bordalás wears a white shirt. Yet the above description fits him as well, if not better than Simeone. As if Simeone had spent several years in isolation, plotting.