FA Cup 4th Round-Talking Points
Luton Town Luton Town, 85 places beneath Norwich City, have become the first non-league side in 24 years to knock out top-tier opposition from the FA Cup. The celebrations in the dressing room of the side plying its trade in the Blue Square Bet Premier League showed that the magic of the FA Cup still […]
Top 10 Goals of The Week-January Week #4
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Michael Carrick-The Brain Of Manchester United
Africa Cup of Nations – Ivory Coast: Preview
The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations gets underway this weekend with Ivory Coast firm favourites to win the tournament won in 1992. Under the leadership of captain Didier Drogba, the Elephants are expected not only to claim their second Afcon title but also do it in style. Last year Drogba was in apathetic mood after […]
Can Michu be Spain’s next False 9?
We all know that Spain’s Ballon d’Or winning coach Vicente Del Bosque rewrote football coaching manuals when he picked a team without a recognised striker for the Euro 2012 finals against Italy(We predicted this move almost a year back). Of course, this move’s origin lays in the fact that Cesc Fabregas had played as a […]
Anims Tito!
Barcelona’s 4-2-4 Formation under Tito
FC Barcelona – The Guardiola System 2008-2012 [Video]
Rough Diamonds #12- Christian Eriksen (Ajax Amsterdam)
Danish people are not new to watching a technically adept, twinkle toed attacking midfielder who can unlock defences at will. So one can understand why they are excited about seeing Christian Eriksen doing “a Michael Laudrup”.Laudrup is definitely the greatest Danish football player ever. At 20 years old, Eriksen is being deemed as his successor. […]
Why Ronaldo should win the Ballon d’Or over Messi
This year’s FIFA Ballon d’Or promises to be a tightly contested affair between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Many people may feel that Andres Iniesta may also have a chance, but I am pretty confident that the tiny Spaniard who got married this year (but didn’t invite the great Sepp Blatter) stands no chance. I […]
Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal:Talking Points
Manchester United won comfortably against a poor, limp Arsenal side devoid of ideas, inspiration and pretty much everything you need to win a football match. For the neutrals, this might have been the dullest United-Arsenal game in ages. Gone are the days of Wenger vs Ferguson, Keane vs Viera, Keown vs Nistelrooy, a United-Arsenal game is not […]
Visualization of assists, chances created & key passes per formation + the best 11 for each formation-Barclays Premier League 2011-12
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Manchester United’s Diamond Formation
Manchester United Diamond Formation Against Newcastle United, Sir Alex Ferguson did something against the traditions of great United sides. He put out a team with no recognised wingers and played with a diamond in midfield. Michael Carrick played at the base of the diamond, Kagawa and Cleverley as carilleros and Rooney played at the tip. This […]
Rough Diamonds #11-Jean Marie Dongou (Barcelona)
La Masia may have the fortunate knack of regularly producing and nurturing supremely talented footballers, but you’d think that even they would have had their decade’s worth of wonder-kids in Lionel Messi. You’d be wrong. Working his way through the Barcelona ranks is a player that the staff are getting equally as excited about, someone […]
Inverting The Pyramid-Barcelona’s 1-2-3-4 formation
Modern football, has it’s foundations laid upon the ‘false’ tactics – so to say the ‘False 10′ and the more popular and widely accepted ‘False 9.’ The present era is a period of sustained innovation, where new formations, different chalkboards and novel setups come up to the fore every day. But the setup which I […]
3 is the magic number,yet again!
The 3 man defense is on the rise, as teams across Europe are shifting focus from the 4 man back line to the yesteryear’s 3 man foundation.. Walter Mazzarri Playing 3 central defenders was somewhat a forgotten art. Gone were those years when the best teams had 3 pillars standing in front of the goalkeeper, […]
Why Robin Van Persie will be a big miss for Arsenal
Wayne Rooney, after a poor World Cup in South Africa, publicly announced that he wanted to leave Manchester United in October of 2010. After a brilliantly done press conference by Sir Alex Ferguson, he signed a new contract for 5 more years. Sir Alex, if he feels a player is a problem and may cause […]
Will Manchester United revert back to a 4-3-3/4-5-1 ?
Shinji Kagawa’s arrival has prompted many articles/debates on how Manchester United will play this season. Kagawa’s position whether Ferguson intends to play him in the hole or on the left will have intense competition as United are already well stacked in those positions. Their best performances in the past decade in Europe came about when they played […]
A Few thoughts on the German Midfield
Two goals from Mario Gomez saw the Germans beat their arch-rivals, Netherlands 2-1 to ensure progress to the next round of Euro 2012 (Mathematically they can still be knocked out). The difference between the two sides was clearly felt in the middle of the pitch. Although both sides on paper lined up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, […]
Euro 2012 Preview-Italy
From being on top of the world in 2006 to a humiliating Group Stage exit in World Cup 2010, with a Quarter-final run in Euro 2008 sandwiched in between, the Azzurri haven’t been the most consistent team in the continent. But even with their injury troubles and the unfolding of the latest match-fixing saga, it’d be foolish to write […]
