Bruno Peres

What I like him the most is the he likes to leave the wide area to come inside and make deep runs from midfield (that's where the space is).
It's kind of an unappreciated, confident thing to do because it really leaves the opposing players guessing and gives them something different to think about. Not to mention, done effectively, it's a deadly way to open up space for others and create mismatches.
 
Jumanji said:
What I like him the most is the he likes to leave the wide area to come inside and make deep runs from midfield (that's where the space is).
It's kind of an unappreciated, confident thing to do because it really leaves the opposing players guessing and gives them something different to think about. Not to mention, done effectively, it's a deadly way to open up space for others and create mismatches.
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It's a big pep thing that, he doesn't like having wide fullbacks and wingers at the same time.

So when the wingers are maintaining width, the fullbacks play narrow in midfield.

When the wingers come inside looking for goals, then the fullbacks go wide.

He draws special pitch markings on the training pitches dividing it up vertically so that the wingers and fullbacks are never in the same channel.
 
domalino said:
It's a big pep thing that, he doesn't like having wide fullbacks and wingers at the same time.

So when the wingers are maintaining width, the fullbacks play narrow in midfield.

When the wingers come inside looking for goals, then the fullbacks go wide.

He draws special pitch markings on the training pitches dividing it up vertically so that the wingers and fullbacks are never in the same channel.
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This will be news to Navas and Sagna. They like to occupy the same blade of grass whenever possible.
 
Larry Stranger said:
There's a big difference in the two. Pellegrini played an offside trap on the 18 yard box without pressing the ball. That's what killed us for the most part. Pep won't do that. He'll play a high line, but when we lose the ball the midfielders will press to try to get it back while the wingers track back. The CB's will have to be quick though.
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The Pellegrini offside trap was the death of us. I actually couldn't quite believe how we got caught out time and time again playing the the offside trap and Pellegrini didn't have the brains to correct his own flawed methods.

I have no doubt Guardiola will bring success to this football club and his philosophy compared to Pellegrinis will be a million miles better.
 
I can't say I have ever seen this guy play besides watching him on YouTube, but my god he looks pure filth on YouTube.

I don't ever go off YouTube to judge a player, but his very long highlight reels can't help but make you feel excited. He looks very very exciting.
 
citizens_1976 said:
The Pellegrini offside trap was the death of us. I actually couldn't quite believe how we got caught out time and time again playing the the offside trap and Pellegrini didn't have the brains to correct his own flawed methods.

I have no doubt Guardiola will bring success to this football club and his philosophy compared to Pellegrinis will be a million miles better.
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The "trick" that every team worked out was that we always used the edge of the box for our line, time your run knowing where the edge of the box was and chances are you'd break the trap.
 
Rammy Blue said:
The "trick" that every team worked out was that we always used the edge of the box for our line, time your run knowing where the edge of the box was and chances are you'd break the trap.
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It wasnt beaten that often, we were good at it, only problem actually was we relied on linesmen getting very tight decisions right and often they didnt. Demechelis was especially good at martialling it.
 
blueparrot said:
It wasnt beaten that often, we were good at it, only problem actually was we relied on linesmen getting very tight decisions right and often they didnt. Demechelis was especially good at martialling it.
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Hart bailed is out a lot as well, and Fernandinho recognising someone was gonna beat it and scrambling back.

It was the lack of pressure on the ball which made it not work. If you had a player chasing down the guy on the ball, the trap worked.

But when we stood off players, giving them all the time to look up and time the pass to
Their forwards and midfielders runs, it was embarrassingly bad.
 
blueparrot said:
It wasnt beaten that often, we were good at it, only problem actually was we relied on linesmen getting very tight decisions right and often they didnt. Demechelis was especially good at martialling it.
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The problem with the whole thing was that even if you're well drilled at the stepping up (which admittedly a fair amount of the time we were) you're still going to have the odd occasion in most games where the linesman lets you down and the odd occasion in most games where for whatever reason be it not pressing the ball or someone just timing their run really well that the opposition legitimately beat the trap and on most of those occasions it is going to lead to a one on one. IMO genuinely good defensive systems don't see you giving the opposition a couple of one on ones even when you're carrying out the plan well. I know some people liked it and still see it as one of our strengths under pellegrini, personally I fucking hated it and thought it caused way more problems than it solved. I still don't understand the mentality of paying 30+ million quid for defenders and then relying on someone getting paid peanuts to get tight calls right for your system to work. And there was the odd game where it fell apart and when it did we seemed unable to fall back on basic defending like we had become so reliant on stepping up that we'd forgotten how to defend. It was awful.
 
we need to get this done asap. torino need to stop being ridiculous here... who else is after him?
 
Though I can't profess to have ever seen him play, his name sounds impressive.

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