Kobe Mainoo’s Cup Final goal a great example of “Gaining advantage by controlling flow” Rashford’s cross field pass forces the City defence to flow right to left running back to goal & restricting perceptual flow behind them, Bruno’s disguised pass goes against Stone’s flow 🧵

Kobbie Mainoo’s Cup Final goal “Going against the Flow” of the goalkeeper’s movement emphasises a tactic that’s vital & needs stressing by coaches - using the opponent’s flow against them in so many ways - unopposed drills practices v mannequins poles detune this vital skill

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It’s right what they say …‘there’s United fans all around the Globe’

🔥⚽️ A City United Munich Memorial Match

The FA Cup the competition that most epitomises the “Spirit of Football”

Starting in lower leagues touching every level of the game

Yet the list of finalists is remarkable, see how many return the next season

The FA Cup 🔥⚽️ ignites a motivation & belief like no other

“If you don’t know you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else” Yogi Berra - If coaches don’t know the ‘pictures’ - the common moves top players make - how do they know what to teach step by step in a long term development programme?

To transfer movement skills from practice to a match relevant cues are important - John Stones scanning his opponent out of the corner of his eye, pausing to entice his marker to accelerate to challenge, timing his own deceleration to accelerate away ‘against his opponent’s flow

Accelerating/decelerating are vital to “Outwit” opponents - practice should therefore involve reading opponent’s movement/body language relative to the ball & goal - Hoddle describes how a defender should decelerate in stages to keep reassessing in a cat & mouse duel v opponent

To transfer movement skills from practice to a match relevant cues are important - John Stones scanning his opponent out of the corner of his eye, pausing to entice his marker to accelerate to challenge, timing his own deceleration to accelerate away ‘against his opponent’s flow

Accelerating/decelerating are vital to “Outwit” opponents - practice should therefore involve reading opponent’s movement/body language relative to the ball & goal - Hoddle describes how a defender should decelerate in stages to keep reassessing in a cat & mouse duel v opponent

There’s a lot of talk about ‘transition’ between attack & defence or vice versa but the best players are constantly reading the game calculating & anticipating so that their intentions can also be attacking when out of possession or defending when in possession

There’s a lot of talk about ‘transition’ between attack & defence or vice versa but the best players are constantly reading the game calculating & anticipating so that their intentions can also be attacking when out of possession or defending when in possession