What do you guys think will the mainstream tactic next up? Obviously all tactics can work but the last couple od years it was possesion play and building from the back, now i feel like its high press, quick transitions and a lot of athelticism. What do you think will be next? It feels Like there's nothing new a manager can think of but they always surpsise us lol.
The Ghost Striker is a proposed tactical idea that exploits the offside rule and possibly allows a striker to get involved in play directly from an offside position.
It starts by placing a striker deep into the opponent's half, far behind the offside line (let's call him the Ghost Striker). Then playing a through ball behind the defense and having a winger run after it. The idea is that even if a defender gets to the ball faster than our winger, we can simply wait until the defender touches the ball, and then our Ghost Striker can legally attack him. That could create a 2v1 situation near the opponent's goal, possibly allowing us to win the ball and score easily.
The linked article explains it in more detail, including a short video animation.
Do you think this could work? And if yes, could it lead to a change in the offside rule?
Not sure why he played this system, but City really struggled when he used a single midfielder which should seem obvious to such an experienced coach.
Edit: He played 4132 a few months a go
I took real data and mapped all runs above 5.5 m/s per position and type of event.
This clip I included is a Right Center Back while in possession of the ball. What I found was that not all high speed running and sprints are the same.
I included small amount so we can see that most runs are not linear. Adding different types of sprints are crucial for training to be better but also injury reduction.
Data Science principals used were cluster - namely PCA - to find features and correlate player positions.
With this knowledge, we can create better training regimens.
This is a cool visual aid I made in python to explain clustering.
I've taken sprints across a game and tried to determine which positions relate to others. I believe this will help with training sprints since there are many ways we can.
Such as short sprints, curved sprints, cutting, plyometrics, etc.
This was something I uploaded to my acc with the details in the caption about the teams whose build up j was trying to re creat
Did my best but ik its not good enough so any advice or help will be much appreciate
With my latest project, I wanted to see what the threshold for stretching center backs out of shape was. I play center back myself and balls over the fullback, into the channel are my team's worst enemy.
I have to go pressure the ball but it usually leaves a gap between me and the other center back that the attacking team can move into. I measured all distances of two teams and used Q3 + 1.5 * IQR to log "stretching" events.
Here is a clip of a stretching event.
So I know a gegenpressing team is knowing for quickly counterattacking after a loss of possession and this quick decisive attack can lead to scoring opportunities but when a team using this tactic is controlling possession what is the “gegenpressing” way to attack?
This tactical analysis dissects the three pillars of Schuster’s European success: the implementation of a compact, low-risk defensive shell, the seamless integration of academy graduates into the first-team rotation, and the ruthless exploitation of dead-ball situations and wide-area deliveries.