What is Positional Play?

What is Positional Play?

What is Positional Play? Where did it come from? What are its benefits? How can you spot it?

Think of Pep Guardiola. Think of Johan Cruyff. Think of Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea. And even Michael Laudrup’s Swansea.

Explained by Alex Stewart, illustrated by Alice Devine.

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[VictorLima-mvni]

4:05 that striker has been offside for about 34 years

[tribalcho]

Of all the basic principles the rule for the 3rd man is the most importnat one imo..Here is what Xavi Hernandez said in an interview : “The third man is impossible to defend, impossible … I’ll explain what it means. Imagine Piqué wanting to play with me, but I’m marked, I have a marker (defender) on me, a very aggressive guy. Well, it is clear that Piqué can not pass it to me, it is evident. If I move away, I’ll take the marker with me. Then, Messi goes down and becomes the second man. Piqué is the 1st, Messi the 2nd and I the 3rd. I have to be very alert, right?! Piqué, then plays with the 2nd man, Messi, who returns it, and at that moment I’m an option. I’m now free of my marker who has moved to defend closer to the ball. Now I’m totally unmarked and Piqué passes me the ball. If my marker is looking at the ball, cannot see that I’m unmarked and then I appear, I’m the third man. We have already achieved superiority. This is indefensible, it’s the Dutch school, it’s Cruyff. It is an evolution of the Dutch triangles. (…) To look for the third man is, for example, that the central players have the ball and one of them is always open because you always have one player more than opposing strikers. In that case, Puyol has the ball and goes up, up and up until a defender challenges him. If the defender who tries to stop him is my marker, then the third man happens to be me! If it is Iniesta’s marker who moves to challenge Puyol, then Andres is the third man. And so we seek superiority in any area of the field. You make a three against two, you win and you have the third man. We advance positions up the field”

[kyleraines]

The way that he said coaches in the beginning is sublime

[AtTheBridgePod]

“Lots of rotation” all FPL managers know about that with Pep

[avenellroad]

Apart from being one of the best players, Johan Cruijff created this in his mind when footballers where just kicking a ball around. That's insane football intelligence. Not only that, he did it in the early 70's and 50 years later managers try to adept and understand this. Absolute genius.

[debsicus]

Is it weird that football related things I searched for on YouTube suddenly ends up as content of TiFo. This has happened 3 times in now. Literally searched for Positional play a couple of days ago

[ayushprabhash]

*4:35* What a poor number 9, always caught offside. No wonder Guardiola prefers a false 9

[ggmu]

4:05 damn I thought Inzaghi retired
Good to see him back

[NeonNoodleNexus]

"Haters will call it goalhanging, I call it positional play" - The striker probably

[fernandosalazar]

“positional play is a number of simple ideas which together are extremely difficult to coach and implement correctly…” And I thought I would only ever hear this from my wife...

[kieranive]

"Football is not about moving the ball, but about moving the opposition." - Pep Guardiola.

Or something to that effect, anyway 🤣

[sanjaypatel-ohgl]

Nice to hear Michael Laudrop being mentioned, very underrated player and coach

[kohchungwei]

Last time I was this early PSV hadn't signed Ibrahim Sangare yet

[prasoonjain]

ONE OF THE BEST FOOTBALL CHANNEL OUT THERE. CHANGE MY MIND.

[waleedgaming]

4:06 OFFSIDE!!

Come REF, thats a clear one!!! what are you

[DomenBremecXCVI]

The goal at 4:05 was clearly offside, even VAR could get that right

[JuanVilorio]

I was planning on going to sleep at 2 am but tifo uploaded a video 🤷🏾‍♂️

[russow]

Plz tifo can you do a another video on Sergio busquets, Thomas Muller? Felt like they are too much disrespected and Underappreciated by normal football fans.

[BlackChrishi]

Leeds is a good example of this too, it helps the players to adapt to multiple roles within a system

[mcg]

I feel uncomfortable if I'm not wearing a suit and tie watching tifo vids