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The Antagonist: How Football’s Great Minds Build, Destroy, and Redefine the Game
It begins with a vision—an obsession born not from the desire to win, but from the need to redefine. Football, in its essence, is simple: a game of passes, goals, and moments. Yet, within its simplicity lies a battlefield for ideologies, a stage for revolutionaries, and a canvas for genius. Somewhere, deep in the mind…
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How Chelsea Pulled off a Comeback Win vs. Tottenham
It has been 13 months since Mauricio Pochettino’s Chelsea erased an early deficit and scored four uninterrupted goals en route to a 4-1 victory, ending Tottenham’s unbeaten start to life under Ange Postecoglou. We saw something fairly similar on Sunday — whilst Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski put Spurs two goals to the good after…
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Liverpool vs City: Arne Slot’s Tactical Masterclass on Both Sides of the Ball
Following what was arguably their best performance of the season, Liverpool now find themselves in a commanding position: nine points clear of second-place Arsenal and eleven ahead of Manchester City. The Reds hosted Pep Guardiola’s side at Anfield, allowing City their first shot in the game after 39 minutes. Remarkably, this marked City’s longest wait…
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What’s Going Wrong With Manchester City?
Manchester City has not won a singular game since the 26th of October which was a 1-0 win against Southampton. It sounds unfathomable that the team who are the current champions of the world and have won the last four Premier League titles consecutively is finding it hard to even keep a 3-0 lead, as…
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A Deep Dive into Barcelona’s Set-Piece Success This Season
It has been nothing short of a sensational start to the Hansi Flick era for FC Barcelona, who find themselves atop the LaLiga table with 34 points from 14 matches. Their set-piece profligacy has been a major factor in their success — between corner kicks and indirect free kicks, the Blaugranas have scored 13 goals…
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All Hale Marco Silva
Marco Silva – in his fourth season at Craven Cottage – has seemingly finally unearthed a system which has transformed Fulham from a mid table to bottom half, ‘safe’ piece of Premier League furniture into a free flowing, easy on the eye outfit with potential European ambitions. This has largely gone under the radar with…
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Amorim’s United Blueprint — Part 3: The Future: Short and Long-term Needs
In the previous installment we looked at how the Manchester United squad will fit into each position and role for Rubén Amorim’s system and had a quick look into the squad depth in each of those positions. In this post I’d like to give my overall thoughts on the strength of the squad, what kind…
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Osasuna: Analyzing the Biggest Surprise of the 2024/25 LaLiga Season’s Opening Weeks
After a 2023/24 season that saw them regress from seventh to 11th in the table, Osasuna parted ways with Jagoba Arrasate after a six-year spell. Arrasate left the 2022/23 Copa del Rey finalists for the 2023/24 Copa del Rey finalists in Mallorca, with Osasuna appointing ex-Mallorca manager Vicente Moreno. Bryan Zaragoza: Analyzing Osasuna’s New…
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Amorim’s United Blueprint — Part 1: The Vision: Implementing a New Tactical Identity
With Rúben Amorim set to take charge of his first game in just over a week and scheduled to lead his first training session on Monday morning, the Portuguese manager has likely spent the past week doing the same thing as us football fans: planning. He will be mapping out his best starting eleven, determining…
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Amorim’s United Blueprint: Part 2: The Audit: Planning out the Squad
In this second chapter of this three-part series looking at how Rúben Amorim ‘s appointment as Manchester United manager, we will look at how each role and position fits into Amorim’s tactical philosophy which we covered in the first part of the series. We will be going in depth on what each position and role…
