Pick up any modern football book that’s in a bookstore or one that pops up when you google best books on football — it could be an autobiography, something on data analytics or tactics — and you’re likely to find the author eulogizing about Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona side at some point.
It’d be really interesting if Guardiola fielded that 4-2-3-1 featuring their new signings. I think Cucurella and Phillips could be - as you say - “just making up the numbers”, but it’s a possibility.
As a Liverpool supporter it really seems to me that we are looking to move to a 4-2-3-1 as well, with the out-and-out pure striker in Darwin. Pep and Klopp have mirrored each other at times in tactical innovation (playmaking fullbacks for sure).
I think both may be looking to play more directly in Premier League games and try to get ahead earlier to conserve energy later in games when they have control.
Yupp! I have a feeling both managers are a bit annoyed bout not getting the finer margins in certain games over the last couple of seasons. The sort that a traditional system or player in a certain position might be able to overcome. It also just makes sense because finding like-for-like is not easy. It's all falling into place, I guess.
It’d be really interesting if Guardiola fielded that 4-2-3-1 featuring their new signings. I think Cucurella and Phillips could be - as you say - “just making up the numbers”, but it’s a possibility.
As a Liverpool supporter it really seems to me that we are looking to move to a 4-2-3-1 as well, with the out-and-out pure striker in Darwin. Pep and Klopp have mirrored each other at times in tactical innovation (playmaking fullbacks for sure).
I think both may be looking to play more directly in Premier League games and try to get ahead earlier to conserve energy later in games when they have control.
Yupp! I have a feeling both managers are a bit annoyed bout not getting the finer margins in certain games over the last couple of seasons. The sort that a traditional system or player in a certain position might be able to overcome. It also just makes sense because finding like-for-like is not easy. It's all falling into place, I guess.