Our featured MOTW is #MilanLiverpool (on RTL 3 🇭🇺 all 18 matches on RTL+) so I thought I'd do a preview on - season so far - approaches of #Slot / #Fonseca - tactical keys follow along/drop your thoughts

Good thread. I was surprised at how much Guardiola tweaked and I think it showed in and out of possession.

At lunch the other day, Carl Anka said "Everyone has a month in their life where they only eat Subway" and I've not stopped thinking about Subway since he said it and now I've ordered a sandwich... Which I don't think was the point of the intial quote but there we go...

🎙️ Arsenal Embrace Underdog Football & Nottingham Forest’s Surprising Start Joe Devine, JJ Bull & Jon Mackenzie are back to discuss how Arsenal have become the masters of knife-edge games. Plus Nick Miller is NOT surprised by Forest's start... podfollow.com/tifofootballpo…

Hi, I'm currently working on the Nicolas Jackson video for the Footy Insights channel, and I'm in need of some assistance: if you happen to know any relatively recent quantitative articles done on finishing, please send them my way. It'd be greatly appreciated 🫡

Why Liverpool’s switches of play against Milan (and Forest) were hindrances rather than a help, and a tactical remnant of the Klopp era. A comfortable win but build-up improvements to be made. nytimes.com/athletic/57760…

No English manager in the Champions League.

I'm just a humble first level distributor but it seems to me that Arsenal miss Martin Odegaard

Monaco - Barca analysis is up, I discuss: - Flick sticks with high line after red card. - Ter Stegen playing the ball into overloaded areas. - Vanderson inside, Ben Seghir outside creates best dynamics for Monaco. - Golovin adds flexibility in 2nd half. betweentheposts.net/as-monaco-barc…

Arsenal’s long ball approach from Raya against Atalanta was flawed. A lack of second ball structure from Havertz/Jesus rotations and pushing Rice forwards. No open-play SOT. Not enough wide combos. More solutions needed in Ødegaard’s absence. nytimes.com/athletic/57816…

Hive mind. I thinking about football fans' collective ideas about how their club should play football. The Manchester United way, for example. Are there any other examples of this sort of phrase for other teams?

Two of the greats

Hosted The Athletic | Football’s Week In Football again this week, alongside JJ Bull and Jon Mackenzie ⭐️ ⭐️ We discussed the best young players itw, and it was a lot of fun. Have a watch 🎥 youtu.be/1IUg4RcIXI4?si…

Thread on Spurs v low-blocks