Man City’s build-up against Liverpool was very successful. For sure, Liverpool’s ineffective high press played a role, but here are two important things Man City was significantly better at compared to previous games: 1) Double pivot positioning: Rodri and Stones always tried to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Some more examples for double pivot positioning:
2) Tempo manipulation during progression: Once the team broke a pressure line they passed the middle third with high speed and quickly come to final third where the opponent was not fully organized yet and allowed many 1v1s.
City finished the game with 93.5% build-up completion and 20 deep completions:
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