just got round to watching this ...what stood out as others pointed his arial passing . Will be useful vs liverpool beating the press hopefully
is that Fred who he tackles at 3:17 ?
just got round to watching this ...what stood out as others pointed his arial passing . Will be useful vs liverpool beating the press hopefully
is that Fred who he tackles at 3:17 ?
From the clips I've seen of him I love the way he play's with his head looking up all the time, I think this allows him always to see his next pass before the ball arrives.
Despite what Pep has said in the past (ahem), that is the one thing he does coach regarding tackling. The standing tackle, while seen as boring and “half-arsed” (at best) by most English spectators, is actually the most tactically advantageous method of winning back the ball because, even if you fail, you are still on your feet to recover and (at the very least) pressure the opposition player that still has the ball. It also allows players to hunt the ball in packs, even past first or second phases of play.One thing I noticed was he always tackled standing up which is what Guardiola encourages. His range of long passing is very KDB-esque too which would give us further options to unpick massed defences.
it was Euros 4 posts up, are you correct?News saying an official offer has been submitted - £45m on £4m salary......also news that we are in for Douglas Costa from calciomercato
Ancellotti as manager at Napoli
it was Euros 4 posts up, are you correct?
No probs. Just wanted to know which way it wasNo it is euros...just my tablet typing lol
Brilliant assessment. Guardiola's effect on the psyche of English football will be revolutionary if our success continues. I have to admit, I'd never thought much about tackling until Guardiola mentioned it last year, but thinking about it, it made perfect sense as your post illustrates.Despite what Pep has said in the past (ahem), that is the one thing he does coach regarding tackling. The standing tackle, while seen as boring and “half-arsed” (at best) by most English spectators, is actually the most tactically advantageous method of winning back the ball because, even if you fail, you are still on your feet to recover and (at the very least) pressure the opposition player that still has the ball. It also allows players to hunt the ball in packs, even past first or second phases of play.
As soon as you leave your feet you have become a binary statistic (either having won the ball/given away a foul or taken yourself out of play completely) and if there is one thing Pep hates is a binary state—his ideal universe is the ‘infinite dimensions’ theory. ;-)
Jorginho also seems to have the Dinho ability of closing down channels, which is much more valuable than tackling, anyway. Good DMs win the ball back through high energy, aggressive tackling or interceptions as the ball is played. The great DMs stop the ball from being played in the first place by taking up positions that cut off passing channels and/or force the opposition to give away the ball themselves before it can be played to a teammate (press) or dribbled forward.
It’s the ironic bit of assessing the DM/CM position via statistics—often the players with the most tackles won/interceptions are good but not quite as good as the truly top echelon players in that position who can only really be assessed by watching them, since there are no “took up position that stopped a counterattack in its tracks because there was no where for the opposition player in possession of the ball to pass” or “pressed player in to making a bad pass which lead to turnover of possession” metrics... at least not yet—I have not gotten quite enough seed funding for my startup just yet.