I wish I knew what Cohen’s genre theory was before I read this, but I think this is the fundamental thing that people don’t grasp:

- Concepts of play overlap because football is fluid.

- These conversations of models largely don’t happen in real life, at least how it is online.

https://twitter.com/jon_mackenzie/status/1880326774455984606

Even when you look at football how it’s traditionally broken down for eases’ sake (build up, transitional attacks, mid-block, etc.) there is an incredible amount of “in-between” moments of play - The same is true for game models. Nothing is as black and white as it’s portrayed.

A few times we've broken the Dutch press well via deeper FBs:

- When CB is on the ball, deeper positioning causing issues for their forwards engaging (simple pass wide bypasses them).

- Deep FB (Dest in one occasion) dragging out the WB and opening the seams beyond. Pressing 4-3-3 today, provides more natural ability to go 3v3 against the CBs.

- Wingers pushing higher
- Ferreira dropping deeper to mark deepest CM (shadowing when presses the ball
- Near side CM shifting to press WB when able, allows FB to sit off/cover

Here is a "cheat sheet" of things to look for when analyzing matches/teams - These are some things to look for: It'll give you a very thorough look at their tendencies with and without the ball, and the various phases within them. Posted this prior, but I can't even look at my own *images* on the old account. C'est la vie.

#AUT having huge issues breaking #NED first line of pressure: 3v3 (one of the CMs pressing) completely pinning players and unable to get around it.

Sabitzer, who was incredibly dangerous in that left half space is having to drop down to essentially play as a #6. Just can't stress it enough: Alaba is not a CB for this team.