Just over four years ago, I wrote How I watch football matches for tactical analyses. Since then, I’ve done a significant ...

Rest-defense continues to evolve with the best teams in the modern game. It's become so much more than just what happens ...

Rest-defense continues to evolve with the best teams in the modern game. It's become so much more than just what happens ...

This season, the Portuguese playmaker has been underwhelming to say the least. On paper, Bruno’s start to the season looks ...

Pressing was all the rage from the late 2010’s to the early 2020’s. Some of the most successful teams across that period ...

When it comes to achieving footballing success, each player on a team must work in harmony, co-existing to bring out the best in one another. The task of any manager is then to not only create an ...

Wing-backs have seen some changes from the days of Achraf Hakimi and Ivan Perišić, and Inzaghi now has a rotation of players fighting for the places. His preference has skewed toward the clever ...

In working with coaches from around the world, one of the most common questions thrown my way pertains to how to train one of the “four corners” in isolation. In truth, the technical, tactical, ...

For much of the 2022-23 season, Arsenal looked like genuine title favourites, with the Gunners in full flow under a former Pep Guardiola mentee, Mikel Arteta. But in the past few months, the Gunners ...

In the modern era, wingers can be as vital to scoring goals and creating chances as any other position on the pitch. Elite superstars like Mohamed Salah and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia have illustrated this ...

Across the past decade or so, we’ve seen a massive shift in youth athlete development toward a games-based, game-realistic approach to training. If I die on one coaching hill, it would be within my ...

Normally we wait until around halfway through the season to do our Brighton tactical analysis. Graham Potter’s team typically remain the most fluid in the division, chopping and changing tactics, ...