Match Tactics
Zonal Marking at Corners and Why Fans Still Blame It
A corner comes in, a forward drifts unmarked to the penalty spot, heads it in, and the stand around me erupts in the same...
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Formations, substitutions, and the small decisions that decide matches.
Match Tactics
A corner comes in, a forward drifts unmarked to the penalty spot, heads it in, and the stand around me erupts in the same...
Match Tactics
Your team is 1-0 up with 20 minutes left, and every instinct on the bench says drop deeper, clear it long, and hold on.
Match Tactics
Your team dominates the ball for 70 minutes, loses it once on the edge of the opposition box, and concedes a goal from a single...
Match Tactics
The false nine gets described as if it were a clever diagram, a number nine who stands in a slightly odd spot.
Match Tactics
A few seasons ago the inverted fullback went from a quirk to a standard tool, and now you see it everywhere from elite sides to...
Match Tactics
Push four players to one side of the pitch and something strange happens to the other eighteen on the field: space opens up...