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Tactical Theory: The Art Of Collective Dismarking — Manchester City

On March 13, 2021, Manchester City traveled to Craven Cottage stadium to meet Fulham, beating them 0–3 thanks to the written names on the score sheet, John Stones, Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Agüero. https://breakingthelines.com/tactical-analy…

26 May 20213 min

By Moussa Behilil

On March 13, 2021, Manchester City traveled to Craven Cottage stadium to meet Fulham, beating them 0–3 thanks to the written names on the score sheet, John Stones, Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Agüero.

Fulham’s Man-Oriented Approach Against Manchester City

The locals had a plan to stop the Citizens as they formed in a 5-3-2 out of possession against City’s 3-4-3, where Ademola Lookman and Ruben Loftus-Cheek were tasked to man-mark John Stones and Aymeric Laporte, the same for their 3 CMs that in a man-marking fashion had to defend Rodri and Bernardo Silva as well as the dropping CF in Agüero. Manchester City used some methods to dis-mark their teammates working as a group which was pivotal to their win.

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