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Goals through combinations is often viewed as a result of brilliance of a few individuals. While this may be true, there are 🔑principles teams could use to optimize conditions for achieving this.
Analyzing combination play w/lessons from vintage #Wenger, #Guardiola & #Sarri 🧵
Analyzing combination play w/lessons from vintage #Wenger, #Guardiola & #Sarri 🧵
I've tried to dissect combination play into smaller parts that make sense to me and I hope it does the same to fellow coaches, analysts & others.
I will present each principle with a description & a GIF to offer some visual reference.
I will present each principle with a description & a GIF to offer some visual reference.
Combination play can be described as quick passing combinations & off-ball movements to create some form of advantage against players in DEF shape (with the target of breaking lines, especially the DEF line).
David Dein invited 9 of us correspondents into Highbury board-room to meet #Wenger in 96. Arsene spoke for 50 mins, and we were spellbound by his attacking philosophy, belief in nutrition (broccoli!) & obsession with #afc as a community club. A visionary had arrived. 1/10
I remember talking to Sol Campbell in Colney canteen & he demonstrated how Wenger insisted if players were to drink tea or coffee (milk bad), and if you had to have sugar, there was a Wenger-approved technique of stirring it in to make all the granules absorb. Perfectionist 2/10
Interviewed Wenger once at Hornby’s school for kids with Autism. Wenger argued passionately that society had to appreciate these kids’ unique mind-set, their different intelligence, acute logic and work with computers tackling complex problems. Look inside GCHQ now. 3/10
