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Manchester City 1, Manchester United 0: Tactics
Manchester City won their fourth straight Manchester Derby on Sunday, beating Manchester United 1-0 with the lone goal coming from Sergio Aguero. The game-changing event was Chris Smalling’s red card. As such, we’ve broken down our tactical analysis of this into two sections: before the red card and after it. BEFORE THE RED CARD Di…
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Wheeling and Dealing: Harry Redknapp and QPR
Queens Park Rangers were relegated from the Premier League in the 2012-13 season. With how they performed, the relegation could be better described as the Premier League instituting the mercy rule. QPR didn’t win a game until January, only managed 30 goals in 38 games and finished the season with a grand total of four…
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Marseille and the Bielsa Equation
It’s only been only three games into Marcelo Bielsa’s tenure with Olympique Marseille, so jumping to conclusions on many levels is ridiculous, even bordering on stupid. Bielsa had his issues in domestic league play over his two seasons with Athletic Bilbao, but he did good things in tournament play during the 2011-12 season with Bilbao’s…
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The Slippery Slope of Banter
This morning, I woke up to the news of former Cardiff City and hopeful Crystal Palace managerial candidate Malky Mackay found to be a racist. Heads were going to roll as it was reported by the Daily Mail that Mackay and Cardiff City chairman Iain Moody were “being investigated over allegations that racist, sexist and homophobic…
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Manchester United 1-2 Swansea City: The Bending of an Inexperienced Back Three
Louis Van Gaal’s debut match as the newly appointed Manchester United manager went less smoothly that many expected. After conceding possession for the first 28 minutes, Swansea pulled ahead off a Ki Sung-Yueng goal to the bottom left corner of the net. Wayne Rooney tied it up by cleaning up a set piece, a goal that…
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Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Bayern Munich: Klopp’s Press and Pace suffocates Bayern’s Youngsters in the Midfield
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang used his physical gifts to power Dortmund to a 2-0 win with a goal and an assist. Pep Guardiola got a little funky again with this lineup, featuring Alaba as a make shift third centerback. Bayern may have won the possession battle handily, but it mostly resulted in emptily passing the ball around…
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Liverpool Formation Possibilities: A Return to Normalcy
There was a certain high wire act that came to be associated with Liverpool Football Club, a team that at times played as if they were football’s equivalent of “The Greatest Show on Turf”. Defense was an afterthought to Liverpool, as the team treated fans to a product that had team pressing of the highest degree,…
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The Versatile, Drugged Out Defense of the Future
Football tactics can be very cyclical in nature. The fall and rise of the passing midfielder in the 2000s is a great example of not only this nature, but the speed it can happen. Pep Guardiola was an unwanted player by the age of 33 in 2004 because clubs only were interested in holding midfielders…
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