Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Watching Italy tonight made me think of this, they have made great use of the backward pass. https://trainingground.guru/articles/pep-guardiola-and-the-art-of-the-backward-pass Quote So perhaps it’s time we reappraised the backward pass? "In football, people complain, ‘they do a lot of square and backwards passing,’” says David Adams, the Technical Director of the Welsh Football Association, "but Pep Guardiola ultimately uses backward passes as an attacking ploy, to open up the opposition. "Manchester City do a lot of what I would call ‘up back and through’ patterns to open up the opponent. They pass backwards to draw the opposition forwards and out of their defensive shape. Then they look to exploit spaces. “It creates a dilemma for the defending side. Do you push up high as a team and leave space in behind; do you drop back and cede space; or do you press from the front and maintain the deeper defensive line but leave lots of space between the lines? “None of these choices is ideal, especially when you consider how tactically and technically adept City are. They are comfortable playing the ball back to the goalkeeper and centre halves, because they're technically strong on both feet. “When they're in possession in deep areas you see them doing different things to create overloads and dilemmas: the winger going into the pocket, with the full back overlapping; quick combinations; decoy runs; the keeper threading passes or hitting the ball over the top behind the defence. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Love the commentator mentioning Chiellini's and his ancestors being in the Roman Legion wearing breastplates.... Until a Gaul called Zidane came along and nutted him in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, bickster said: I thought you were boycotting the Euros ? Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Didn't even realise turkey had a number 9 on, not a drip of sweat on him either, complete non entity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NoelVilla Posted June 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 11, 2021 7 minutes ago, avfc1982am said: Love the commentator mentioning Chiellini's and his ancestors being in the Roman Legion wearing breastplates.... Until a Gaul called Zidane came along and nutted him in it. Wasn't that Materazzi? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Gorgeous goal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Turkey gone to shit, heads down The Italian jack grealish deserved his goal been the best player out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 11, 2021 Wonderful goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted June 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 11, 2021 Nice goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAlex Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 The bloody keeper again. Terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 minute ago, NoelVilla said: Wasn't that Materazzi? Well done....The Moretti has taken it's toll tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 German commentary just said mancini has a 20 man coaching team As they were showing vialli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Cheillinu is like 37 and Bonucci 34 proper centre halfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Is it 5 subs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 11, 2021 Soyuncu is a dirty bastard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Bernadeschi is shit 3 touches, 2 free kicks all of them woeful I thought he'd be a RW on the move this summer so was interested in seeing him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 5 minutes ago I was thinking that this new generation of Turkish players didn't act like previous teams who always used to lose their tempers and try and injure their opponents when things were not going their way. Never mind, same as it ever was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Great block grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted June 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 11, 2021 Italy celebrating that defensive challenge by Chiellini. Great to see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Turkey were flat but that was a very impressive and energetic performance by Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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