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EPL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Season 2023/24
MD7 Tottenham 2-1 Liverpool

Tactical trends are set in the club competitions, not by the national teams. Players need to spend longer time together to learn complex patterns of play

Ange Postecoglou is now famous for this type of construction when fullbacks overload central zone to drag there the wide players of the opponent. The width is kept through the wingers — in this case Richarlison and Kulusevski

It’s a risky model because in case of lost possession Tottenham is left with exposed wide areas, as 2 centre-backs are not enough to protect all the channels for counters

In this episode the risk was rewarded with a fast attack when Maddison delivered the ball to Richarlison to attack the box with big numbers. You can see where the fullbacks end up — almost on the same line with the striker Heung-Min Son

It’s hard to track who was the first to try this idea for construction. De Zerbi’s Shakhtar Donetsk played in similar style against weaker opponents in the season 2021/22. But for sure it must have required a lot of courage from Postecoglou to perform this game plan against Liverpool in the Matchday 7 of his first season in EPL

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Who was the first coach to try this construction?