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Thiago Motta is one of the rising stars in club management. But how does his Bologna team play?

JJ Bull explains 🧠
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[racerdeth]

Actual full backs and actual centre halves. Suddenly we're back to the 1950/60s

[sld]

That's more Barcelona than Barcelona.

[anubixus]

"If you have ball, play with it. Pass pass pass." -Pep Goatiola

[Bogdanspath]

Thiago Motta:

Full back: ❌
FullY back: ✅

[NorthLondonForeverCOYG]

It looks like that Barça are good at producing tacticians too. Pep, Arteta, Xavi and Motta. And the interesting thing is that all the new tactical mangers used to play in midfield and were very technical. Arteta, Xavi, Motta, Alonso, De Zerbi and Fabregas. Jorginho, Xhaka, Thiago, Fernandinho, Busquets, Henderson etc. can become mangers if this trend continues.

[recruitmentch]

Here in Italy have been aware of Motta's tactics for a long time as he actually introduced it when he was in charge of PSG U19's.
I still remember pundits here superficially understanding it and actually setting it up like you did at the beginning of the video, and then proceeding to laugh at him like he was some sort of a madman. That was six years ago, and look how far he has come.

[Giman_iets]

"If the opponent doesnt have the ball, they cant score"
Harry maguire: "are you sure about that"

[hegeliandianetik]

Fun fact Motta was one of Arteta's roomates at La Masia and Arteta signed one of Motta's ex players in Kiwior

[diulikadikaday]

Makes sense given he was in the Barcelona youth team.

[willmacky]

It always excites me when good players work up the ladder and become good managers

[rayplaylist]

modern football managers nowadays are scary man. we have Arteta, Alonso and Motta all playing with their own philosophy and thrive. the future is exciting.

[IHamilton]

Reminds me a great deal of City’s approach at the beginning of the season. The game against West Ham really stuck in my mind because of how the fullbacks formed a square in the center of the pitch with the CBs and I haven’t seen City dominate a match quite like that before. Was honestly surprised to see them toss it aside after the first few games because wow was it effective.

[josephnus]

This possession-based system immediately reminds me of Louis van Gaal’s Man United. You know, where the game usually ended up with a scoreline of 0-0, and 1-0 if they managed to won. Making the whole stadium sleep in the process. Theatre of Dreams indeed 😂

[BaldursPicketFence]

Was listening to the Athletic podcast about him yesterday. It was fascinating.

[arijitdas]

So he actually makes sidebacks the full-backs

[fishyfish]

Bro uses tiki taka to get same result as Mourinho's defensive tactics

[geordiedog]

Fascinating. I’d love to see an episode on coaches and teams employing ‘out of the ordinary’ tactics. Bologna obviously is a shoe in but there’s a good few other candidates!

[_Amit_Sunil]

Obviously easy to win if your 2-7-2 has an extra player compared to 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 😢

[acco]

Zirkzee is heading to a big club again soon mark my words

[nigelbhebhe]

I hope he gets to implement this at a team like Barcelona or PSG.