Alright, let's try to make sense of #RealMadridBVB on the rewatch🧵
-Sahin's initial plan
-RM's disjointed press
-signs of turnaround?
-back 5 disaster?
-Vinicius freed from Ryerson, BdO
-takeaways

In the post @ToniKroos reality of RM's #Mbappe integration, it's fair to say that results have somewhat masked performances, whilst #Ancelotti's been trying to find the right setup to mitigate the cascading effects (Jude, Vini, def/midfield balance, FB-CB health issues)

You've probably heard about @Guirassy_19's unforgettable season, but I don't think we're talking about this goals/shot on target ratio which is at 0.71 (fbref has him at 0.65 prior to today), so this got me thinking....
#Guirassy #VfBSGE
THREAD I took a quick look at all the elite big 5 finishers recently via @fbref, their best seasons:
-#Lewandowski 0.59 (41 G)
-#Mbappe 0.47 (33)
-#Benzema 0.47 (24)
-#Schick 0.54 (24)
-#Salah 0.48 (32)
-#Kane 0.55 current 32G season
-#Auba hit 0.5 in Prem and BL
-#Lautaro 0.53 (23G)

This now at least the 2nd massively interesting performance by #Bielsa (also vs #Diniz) that we saw vs La Scalonita.
1. Let's take a look what #Uruguay proposed -or how "he set up the chessboard" (by @ReneMaric) vs the ball/OOP in what I saw as a m2m option scheme





to negate the 1v2 #Bielsea's scheme used
-#Darwin's energy in pressing + #Pellistri outside in
w #delaCruz triggering the option: Bielsa wanted to negate the Scalonita's midfield. See the m2m on Alexis (dLCr), Enzo (Valverde) w what you'd expect but #dePaul was identified as a 🔑

Gone and took another look at #UCLfinal #ManchesterCityInter for my @Telexhu piece
and I wanna touch on 2 issues
1. Why #Guardiola chose the 3 🔷 3 vs his trusted
3+📦midfield it seemed as if the element of surprise almost backfired (in that #City seemed less prepared for this and def. to Inter's adjustments), although as #Pep admitted (and you can see below), the execution was nowhere near flawless out of the back + the collective #Inter defending !

think the #ManchesterCity GK + 3-diamond-3 in poss where #Stones rotates to right 8 is to pull both CBs out and iso #Haaland l #UCLfinal #Inzahgi’s ball near 8 jumps City FB so w City winger pinning WB far side, Pep wants Bastoni to come off #Haaland (Inter obv prefer 2v1) and jump out on Stones. Nice read/switch by #Dimarco to INT the wide pass, leads to a counter

Roger #Schmidt's 4231 w super distances invites Juve to press and then goes on exploiting it w low FBs (Juve WBs cant get there) playing the straight chip ball to the wide mid running down the line vs a side CB

#JuveBenfica another pattern is to drop the great #Enzo in to the Toni Kroos space to manipulate Juve's 2nd line (see McKennie) w the low WBs and play behind for their wide mids. #Aursnes receives wide here, followed automatically by #Grimaldo rotating into the halfspace

some #BVB thoughts:
While I'd agree w Nico #Schlotterbeck re SCF being better until 1:1
I think #Terzic had a really good gameplan vs the 442 of #Streich (w man-orientations) in particular vs SCF 2nd line (Grifo-Doan issues defending space,manipulating double 6's man-orientation) the caveat ofc is how it was EXECUTED by BVB:
-inaccurate passes, Hazard, Dahoud, Hummels, Malen
-failures to execute immediate switch yielding 2v1s (Bellingham)
- or take some risks w passes
- slow rotations hinder optimal progress (Modeste, Hazard)