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Cherki is the best to handle and wrong-foot while stationary.
He's already been through a lot in his career. From hero to zero, then back to hero in barely 4 years.
Mbappé's mother, who was his agent back then aborted an unexpected transfer to PSG last year. 🧵
Every RMA opportunity came from this.
Atletico uses to trap the winger out wide and covers the channel with the midfielder tracking back.
Carlo therefore opted for a wider structure with long range passers and Mbappé dropping deep—>Atleti in a midblock
Atletico’s backline priority was to control Mbappe’s diagonal runs (which explains how tight the backline was).
It worked twice for RMA but, game plans that narrow players’ attention towards specific (repeated) patterns limit players’ reciprocal gift-giving.
How to build a case for a collective foundation if A exerts an influence on B (by helping him to optimise his best qualities) but B never exerts an influence on A?
A good game plan isn’t only the one that reads opponent’s flaws and creates the most miscommunications among them.
In the tradition of Suaudeau and Denouiex's Nantes (80s, 90s, early 20s).
Is the “jeu à la nantaise” (Nantes-style game) outdated? Denoueix’s answer, quoting his mentor Coco Suaudeau in 2007.
Thiago Almada: “Jouer juste”.
Honestly, he’s one of the best anticipators I’ve ever seen.
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His PSG is the crowning achievement of his career as a coach.
His positional play insight is quite unmatched. He gave his players external and internal cues to get through the unstable phases (positional flexibility / spare them from criticism by being obnoxious with the press).
« Paris, on a quelque chose à te dire. »
Rendez-vous ce soir, à partir de 20h, au Parc des Princes !
#PSGASM
Key takeaways before Liverpool-PSG.
1/2) PSG’s m2m ‘Weak’ (foot orientation) press to end up quicker in a defensive action —> front foot defending/Marquinhos corrects the line —> Pacho gets side on with the ability to switch the “side on” stance
3/4) Readjust duel technique
1) PSG building-up in the Liverpool fashion. Multi-scale affordances with a back 3 acting as a wall passer.
2) Slot’s correction (with Jota isolating the wide CB)
Tom retweeted
O Tribuna Rubro-Negra lamenta profundamente o falecimento de um dos nossos integrantes co-fundadores, Pietro Arthur (@pieculer), após tentar salvar o irmão em uma barragem.
Todo nosso apoio aos familiares nesse momento difícil. Que tenham força e fé para lidar com essa perda.
É com grande tristeza que acabo de saber do falecimento de Pietro, com apenas 16 anos.
Ele representou o melhor do nosso esporte: humildade, humanismo, curiosidade. Ele foi o maior defensor do futebol-arte brasileiro.
Em sua memória,#1MinutoPorPietro no próximo jogo do Flamengo
