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Ed Ames
The Chink in the Armour: Defending Set Pieces
in Free, Talking Tactics / / 24 commentsBy Ed Ames. Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool are on the up. In nearly all aspects of play, they have clearly improved…
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Ed Ames
Positional Rotations and Movement Patterns: A Case Study Against Hull
By Ed Ames. In my last column (Struggles and Strategies Against the Low Block), I mentioned how positional rotations were…
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Bob Pearce
You’ll Never Look at Football the Same Way Again
in Free, Talking Tactics / / 1 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. With each passing season we have seen the Premier League battlefield steadily evolve in its…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Talking Tactics – The Book! The Podcast!
You’ll Never Look at Football the Same Way Again By Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov I was reading Mihail’s post…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Villarreal 1 Liverpool 0: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
By Mihail Vladimirov. Given the magnitude of the game and having enough time to rest after the latest league game…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Liverpool 2 Newcastle 2
By Mihail Vladimirov. With Sakho left out due to the breaking doping issue, Clyne being ill, Lucas already starting the…
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Daniel Rhodes
Liverpool 4 Everton 0: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
With both teams rotating heavily for their weekend games, it was unsurprising they returned to using their ‘best available’ for…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Bournemouth 1 Liverpool 2
By Mihail Vladimirov. After the emotionally-draining Europa League clash on Thursday and with a Derby looming on Wednesday with only…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Liverpool 4 Dortmund 3: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
in Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only, Talking Tactics / / 36 commentsBy Mihail Vladimirov. Making a combined total of 15 substitutes for the weekend league games, both managers demonstrated that the…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Dortmund 1 Liverpool 1: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
Heading into this game, Dortmund had something of a minor injury crisis with their first choice centre-backs and key midfielder…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis: Southampton 3 Liverpool 2
By Mihail Vladimirov. Southampton made only one change for this game. Fonte, returning from a one game ban, replaced Targett,…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Liverpool 2 Man Utd 0
By Mihail Vladimirov. For this game Liverpool recalled Coutinho and Sturridge to the starting XI with both Moreno and Clyne…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – C. Palace 1 Liverpool 2
By Mihail Vladimirov. For this game Pardew had to make a few changes to his starting XI, which had been…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Liverpool 1 Man City 1
By Mihail Vladimirov. Given each team’s injuries to senior players, it was unsurprising that both managers continued with their recent…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Aston Villa 0 Liverpool 6
in Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only, Talking Tactics / / 17 commentsBy Mihail Vladimirov. Neither manager had any major selection dilemmas before the game. Garde was without several players but only…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Liverpool 2 Sunderland 2
in Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only, Talking Tactics / / 8 commentsBy Mihail Vladimirov. Although both managers had key players absent through injury, ahead of this game each side had a…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Leicester 2 Liverpool 0: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
By Mihail Vladimirov. With Leicester not having any major injuries and Liverpool rotating heavily for their FA Cup game, both…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Preview – Leicester City v Liverpool
By Mihail Vladimirov. When these two teams met on Boxing Day at Anfield, Leicester were right in the thick of…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Norwich City 4 Liverpool 5
By Mihail Vladimirov. In what proved to be the craziest game of the season up to now, Norwich’s selection contributed…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – Liverpool 0 Man Utd 1
in Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only, Talking Tactics / / 7 commentsBy Mihail Vladimirov. Neither manager made any selection surprises. Van Gaal fielded an unchanged starting XI, the only tweak being…
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Mihail Vladimirov
PL Tactical Preview: Man Utd (H)
By Mihail Vladimirov. Usually billed as the biggest game of the English football calendar, this clash now pits ninth against…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Liverpool 3 Arsenal 3: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
in Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only, Talking Tactics / / 9 commentsBy Mihail Vladimirov. Given both teams’ injury issues it was only natural to see neither manager springing any surprises with…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Preview – Liverpool v Arsenal
By Mihail Vladimirov. This clash, the first big game of the New Year, is of huge importance to both teams.…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis – West Ham 2 Liverpool 0
By Mihail Vladimirov. The first Premier League game of the New Year saw West Ham completing the double over Liverpool…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Tactical Analysis: Sunderland 0 Liverpool 1
By Mihail Vladimirov. For this game Allardyce made four changes – two of them enforced, and two due to tactical…