Football analysis. Coach, video scout, opposition analyst.
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RE - IMAGINING THE GAME MODEL
A thread 🧵
Coaches often write long meticulous game models
Yet football can be coached with 3-4 concepts and attunement to local affordances
2v2, 3v3 4v4
Football starts from how you interact and the tools used to exploit advantage
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Michael Carrick's first session at Manchester United as Head Coach:
⚠️This thread isn't the rod to beat or the jewel to crown Carrick with, I'll leave agenda to certain other pages.
Manchester United release training footage that's not activation or rondo's for the first time in 14 months, which we will celebrate by unravelling it
In the 🧶 you will find
🗒️ SESSION DESIGN: what are they doing
🔍 DETAILS: how and why are they doing it
The purpose is to give background to the "unknown tangibles" - the details beyond the surface level which I hope to deliver using my experience and knowledge.
📆 WEEKLY CYCLE
Manchester United have one game per week this season, allowing them to have the traditional full week training cycle. The players were off for Monday & Tuesday, came back in on Wednesday which is supposedly when this footage was taken.
The next game is on Saturday, making this a MATCHDAY-3 training - the furthest removed from both games.
This is therefore the physically heaviest loaded session; often a STRENGTH day - the aim is to create tension in the muscles more than the other days, allowing maximal recovery between games.
💪FOOTBALL STRENGTH
is to maintain a posture with resistance, playing duels (tackling, closing down), shooting. 15-20' of resistance training in the gym can also be included.
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tf I just seen
"People questioned why he moved to Man United… this is why" ⭐
How Ayden Heaven has taken his opportunity since making the switch from Arsenal 👏
🎙️ @laura_woodsy | 📺 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK
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Thought Mount was so good, my MOTM. Some of the intensity & sharpness he carries in his actions, can be such a punchy technician when fully fit & firing. Hope he can build some momentum now because he’s been quietly pretty good this season & the gaffer clearly loves him.
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Catching up on BOU vs WHU - really liked Iraola's changes at HT, 2-0 down and facing a 5-4-1 low block.
1⃣ Moved Cook (normally a CM) from RB to CB to provide a strong ball carrier on the first line. This allowed Bournemouth to really exploit the space around West Ham's lone #9.
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Hate to break it, by design the chances we created came from the system. Overload the wide spaces & work in-swinging balls with counter movements. That’s all we have vs a deep block & that team had Tarkowski, Keane & O’Brien. This loss is on him & the players. Worst result he’s had for me. Truly shocking.
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Thiago Motta once said - I don’t see formations vertically, I see it horizontally. We play a 2-7-2
Could coaches change their perception of the pitch and reimagine structures through diagonal affordances?
Nagelsmann’s commitment to Diagonality could make them Trail Blazers
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“The streets are full of talented people but who didn't have the luck of finding someone who placed their faith in them. I can be the one that facilitates life,
that gives them an opportunity”
Arsene Wenger
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📩 SNIPPET DROP
Short-form goal breakdown of Bryan MBEUMO's equalizer against Fulham in May.
guillaumevdw.substack.com/p/…
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I’ve been lucky enough to work as a football coach in many countries, and player development is viewed differently across each one.
Opinion - these models are a contributing factor towards coach development.
Thread 🧵
(Expansion and continuation of this teapaw.org/jackbraz29/status/1862…)
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“Most people didn’t know that I wasn’t just his translator.”
Caught up with former Leeds analyst @AF_Clavijo to discuss those long days with Marcelo Bielsa, what he learned from it all, and why he is ready for the next step in his coaching career. skysports.com/football/news/…
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It’s 20 years today since England were beating France 1-0 going into stoppage time, but still lost 2-1.
Here are both of Zinedine Zidane’s goals from that night, in real time.
One of the most extraordinary endings to a match ever seen at a European Championship.
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Ten Hag's plan is not too different from what we saw against City in the league last time out.Bruno and McTominay blocking the passing lanes towards the double pivot, Amrabat and Mainoo marking 8's. But this time City don't have pure 1vs1 threat outside and Haaland is too static.
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Gasperini was ALREADY in the history of world football, having contributed to the tactical evolution of the last 15 years.
Now he certifies his work with an incredible trophy!
