von CE am 22.09.2019
in den Kategorien Bundesliga
mit 0 Kommentaren
Three of the five major European leagues have had to endure the dominance of a single club in recent years, including the Bundesliga. Since Dortmund’s heyday under Jürgen Klopp, Bayern Munich has won the championship seven times in a row. But this season everything may be different.
von GT am 06.08.2019
in den Kategorien Tactical Theory, Team Portraits
mit 0 Kommentaren
On December 2nd, 2018, Holstein Kiel travelled to MSV
Duisburg and convincingly won 4-0. Last season, under the command of Tim Walter
(now the coach of VfB Stuttgart), Kiel gained popularity as a high-pressing,
possession-hungry side, using a variety of unique actions and structures not used
by other teams. Kiel were identified as promotion candidates, but inconsistency
lead to a 6th place finish. Amid this inconsistency though, were
games where their approach couldn’t have been much better, with their win
against Duisburg perhaps being the best example.
von AR am 10.07.2019
in den Kategorien Champions League, Coaching, Opinion
mit 1 Kommentar
We discuss the potential strategic impacts of VAR on both player and coaching behavior in top level competition.
von AR am 07.07.2019
in den Kategorien National Teams, World Cup
mit 1 Kommentar
The United States women won their fourth World Cup title, defeating the Netherlands to defend their crown in Lyon.
von JD am 30.06.2019
in den Kategorien World Cup
mit 0 Kommentaren
Germany faced Sweden in the World Cup quarter final on Saturday evening. Coming into the game, the two-time champions had won every game without conceding despite their underlying numbers telling a different story.Sweden’s results were similarly impressive, failing to win just once, in a match against favourites USA.
von MK am 25.06.2019
in den Kategorien National Teams
mit 0 Kommentaren
To kick off their 2019 AFCON campaign, South Africa took on traditional powerhouses Cote d’Ivoire in Cairo. Stuart Baxter’s charges lined up in a 4-4-2 shape with Percy Tau playing as a secondary striker/playmaker next to Racing Strasbourg’s Lebo Mothiba, who occupied a more traditional target striker role.
Cote d’Ivoire on the other hand lined up relatively similarly in a 4-2-3-1 formation with Aston Villa’s Jonathan Kodjia playing as a front-man with strong tendencies to drift to either wing, particularly in potential counterattacking moments. His movements would be balanced by Fulham FC’s Jean Michael Seri, whilst veteran Max Gardel and Nicolas Pepe provided the threat from out wide.
von IB am 30.05.2019
in den Kategorien Champions League, Team Portraits
mit 4 Kommentaren
After the last years’ Spanish domination in the European Cup Finals, English football finally took over for this season, with 4 teams representing in this season’s 2 Cup finals. If you followed the development of the english football lately, the shift was quite predicted and inevitable. Both teams have an important thing in common: conscious building in every aspect of the game throughout the last years, mixed with patience, allowing the 2 head coaches to improve their game model -5 years for Pochettino, 4 and half for Klopp.
von IB am 26.05.2019
in den Kategorien Bundesliga, Coach Portraits, Team Portraits
mit 0 Kommentaren
In the last games of the season, Leverkusen used an interesting approach in their positional play, creating a 3-2-2-3 (midfield-box) staggering from the initial 4-2-3-1 shape, which basically changed the whole dynamics of their positional play.
von ES am 21.05.2019
in den Kategorien Coach Portraits, Observatory, Team Portraits, Video Analysis
mit 1 Kommentar
31 games in, Jena was 8 points away from safety.
7 games later, they finish 1 point ahead of the relegation zone.
Coach Lukas Kwasniok introduced his own table for these 7 games and put it in the change room.
They won 6 of the games.
von IB am 16.05.2019
in den Kategorien Primera Division, Team Portraits, Video Analysis
mit 9 Kommentaren
According to several statistics (expected goals against – xGA, shots allowed, passes allowed per defensive action – PPDA) Eibar is on the top of the rankings in the La Liga. Therefore I decided to take a look into their defensive organization, analyzing their main principles and movements in their main 4-4-2 system (in high-press/mid-block/deep-block, plus their 4-1-4-1 system), whilst also highlighting their main weaknesses.