on saturday spurs played chelsea and they just beat them very convincingly. when you are trying to analyse the game there are various factors that are taken into consideration like formation ,player used for that awarness of players , their movement and many others . its always a coach's job to find out as to what went wrong in the match and if the scenario rises again he has a solution in mind . whichever team game it is . its like a game of chess where on the two opponents keeps on asking question of each other and try to seek answer . whoever finds the solution is the winner .
spurs started the game with 4-3-1-2 formation with sissoko preffered in the middle of the park alongside dier and eriksen . while chelsea started the game with 4-3-3 formation . the game started with spurs giving chelsea a taste of their own medicine . chelsea like to press hard and try to hit team on the counter . here spurs did exactly what chelsea does to others team . what chelsea like is that the opposition sits back and then the assess the shape and open them up with their ball movement . here spurs just didnt let them have time and space on the ball . while we talk about the formation and all that we do have to take into consideration the tempo of the game . it doesnt matters whether you play on the counter or on ball holding offense. its very important that you control the tempo of the game because if cannot control the tempo the game you can be ripped apart because if you let the opposition let control the tempo the game they can move the ball very fast and slow and get you out of shape and use that to their advantage .because after all the game is all about discipline,hard work,concentration and organisation and if any of one quality comes short then the one team that lacks it can ( definitely) ends up on the losing side .
so how did spurs controlled the tempo of the game . for the first 15 min they gave the same medicine that chelsea gives to their oppposition . they just closed down chelsea very hard and never allowed them time and space on the ball . the game was frantic till the first 25 min . most importantly chelsea are caught our of shape when the ball is take from back to front . the trouble is not the back four its the midfielders . apart from jorginiho the others are caught very high on the pitch and basically there is a lot of space in front of the back four which is there to exploit and thats what arsenal did in their first match against chelsea .
so how did spurs controlled the tempo and how chelsea lost it . for first 25 min spurs high pressed and scored . but you cannot do high press for the entire time of the match . you need to change levels and thats what they did . after 25 min spurs started to sit back but the sitting back wasnt that they let chelsea let time and space on the ball . instead they let chelsea come in their own half and then pressed them enough so that they had to play with a high tempo . this is where i think chelsea lost . spurs after 25 min had passed the mantle to chelsea by sitting back and chelsea had the ball . chelsea should had controlled the game better . but instead they played with on tempo and one dimensional always trying to play a forward pass game . while chelsea had the ball they should had controlled the game better and moved the ball better .
for that i am going to give one example what gaurdiola team use to do at barcelona . they would slow down the game by playing tiki taka and moving the ball around and let the opposition take the shape . what this does is you can gauge the opposition's defense and can work your offensive moves . they would play tiki taka and suddenly they would up the tempo to which the opposition is caught unprepared . chelsea played with one dimensional tempo . they should had controlled the tempo better . they should had tried to draw out spurs out of their own half . the trouble with sarri's team is that they only know in one way of playing the game . the second problem is that the cohesion that is wanted between the front players is not there . conte's team had a good cohesion between hazard and costa and that won them the league . in sarri's game the no.9 is used more as a positional piece who keeps the centre backs occupied and other try to exploit the gaps . it had been a problem with his team at napoli too and i had written about it when i had analysed the napoli's game . this game should be a learning a curve for sarri who should look at his tactics and the back that remain at the back when opposition team come very fast forward .
spurs started the game with 4-3-1-2 formation with sissoko preffered in the middle of the park alongside dier and eriksen . while chelsea started the game with 4-3-3 formation . the game started with spurs giving chelsea a taste of their own medicine . chelsea like to press hard and try to hit team on the counter . here spurs did exactly what chelsea does to others team . what chelsea like is that the opposition sits back and then the assess the shape and open them up with their ball movement . here spurs just didnt let them have time and space on the ball . while we talk about the formation and all that we do have to take into consideration the tempo of the game . it doesnt matters whether you play on the counter or on ball holding offense. its very important that you control the tempo of the game because if cannot control the tempo the game you can be ripped apart because if you let the opposition let control the tempo the game they can move the ball very fast and slow and get you out of shape and use that to their advantage .because after all the game is all about discipline,hard work,concentration and organisation and if any of one quality comes short then the one team that lacks it can ( definitely) ends up on the losing side .
so how did spurs controlled the tempo of the game . for the first 15 min they gave the same medicine that chelsea gives to their oppposition . they just closed down chelsea very hard and never allowed them time and space on the ball . the game was frantic till the first 25 min . most importantly chelsea are caught our of shape when the ball is take from back to front . the trouble is not the back four its the midfielders . apart from jorginiho the others are caught very high on the pitch and basically there is a lot of space in front of the back four which is there to exploit and thats what arsenal did in their first match against chelsea .
so how did spurs controlled the tempo and how chelsea lost it . for first 25 min spurs high pressed and scored . but you cannot do high press for the entire time of the match . you need to change levels and thats what they did . after 25 min spurs started to sit back but the sitting back wasnt that they let chelsea let time and space on the ball . instead they let chelsea come in their own half and then pressed them enough so that they had to play with a high tempo . this is where i think chelsea lost . spurs after 25 min had passed the mantle to chelsea by sitting back and chelsea had the ball . chelsea should had controlled the game better . but instead they played with on tempo and one dimensional always trying to play a forward pass game . while chelsea had the ball they should had controlled the game better and moved the ball better .
for that i am going to give one example what gaurdiola team use to do at barcelona . they would slow down the game by playing tiki taka and moving the ball around and let the opposition take the shape . what this does is you can gauge the opposition's defense and can work your offensive moves . they would play tiki taka and suddenly they would up the tempo to which the opposition is caught unprepared . chelsea played with one dimensional tempo . they should had controlled the tempo better . they should had tried to draw out spurs out of their own half . the trouble with sarri's team is that they only know in one way of playing the game . the second problem is that the cohesion that is wanted between the front players is not there . conte's team had a good cohesion between hazard and costa and that won them the league . in sarri's game the no.9 is used more as a positional piece who keeps the centre backs occupied and other try to exploit the gaps . it had been a problem with his team at napoli too and i had written about it when i had analysed the napoli's game . this game should be a learning a curve for sarri who should look at his tactics and the back that remain at the back when opposition team come very fast forward .
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