Tactical Analysis : Chelsea 1 - 0 Manchester City | How Tuchel Secured The Champions League |

Hello and welcome back to simplified football, the 2020-2021 season culminated at the Dodrago stadium when Thomas Toho's Chelsea faced Pep City. City arrived confident of having been the outstanding team in Europe this season, but Tucho's men lost them. They have won twice recently, so they were just as confident and in the end the match ended in a 0-0 draw for Chelsea thanks to their verts, which means the

champions

league

trophy returns to london. xg proved this was a well-deserved victory for the tehrsmen 1.59 to 0.52, but what tactics did both coaches use? Let's take a look, this is how Touhou and Pep lined up and for formations like this, you can watch our video.

Sponsor the One Football app. One Football will bring you news on formations, transfers and much more for your favorite teams and players all season long. as well as through the heroes and the best part is that you can get it absolutely free through the link in the description below. Let's start with Chelsea and what they did with their 40 possessions whenever possible. Chelsea would look to go short Mendy with Rudiger and Initially, the silver was widely split as Aspen's equator moved further to the right with James occupying a higher position in City's default starting 433. De Bruyne would have no chance of winning the boar against these men as he was greatly outnumbered, so Marte began to get into Rudiger from the right. right side and initially this forced Chelsea to build down the right so Sterling would start deeper to allow the aspirant to initially receive the ball and once he did he would press using his cover shadow to prevent the ball came in on James and at first this often forced Chelsea to go long.

However, it should also be noted that when Chelsea went long, they looked to target Hertz, who had approached Zinchenko because he had the height advantage, but Zinchenko stood his ground in the air, but City's decision to getting mario in early to press proved fatal

chelsea

soon stopped forcing their play down the right side and went left, either towards rudiger first or, more commonly, with the chip ball towards chihuahua and when walker seemed to stay deep, Mount was also staying deeper, forcing him to make a decision on which man to use. We picked up and often saw Walker fully commit to pressing Chowal which would mean Mount was free to receive and turn and suddenly Chelsea were 1v1 in crucial areas, this leads directly to the winning goal.

Marte is pressing centrally so that Chihuahua can receive and then Walker. he moves to press him, the mount is free, so Stones chooses to come out of defense to press, meaning Diaz and Zinchenko are one on one and there are acres of space behind the high line. Diaz follows Vernon's race and it turns into a speed battle between Sinchenko and Hertz, but both Walker and Stones had moved back to try to cover Verna's race, meaning that three men were taking a race, so so Mount has plenty of room to choose the pass that leads to the goal, as discussed.

Chelsea were not afraid to seize the opportunity. high line with Werner unable to escape Walker's shackles on the left side, he moved to the right where he had more pace than Diaz and Zinchenko and Chelsea constantly looked longer to try to get him into one-on-one, but up in the control position. Chelsea's central

city

front line had all sorts of problems. Both full-backs provided the width, meaning that when Marte was high they had a 5v4 against the City backline in Hertz's right position often drawing in a City centre-back and giving Werner space to attack. however, we also often saw Mount Moore draw in the center to Walker, which would free up Chowa to receive a switch to potentially look for the cross or shot under sustained pressure; however, Mars would essentially become a right back to try and even things up. up 5v5, but how silly it seemed to use the ball in general, they were able to play short as the chassis was content to allow them to get through the first phase to remain compact deep in the pitch and City generally used a passing defense three and narrow. in the build-up and looked to overload the midfield with Zinchenko dropping in to create a diamond, so it often looked like a 343 and this was an interesting arrangement between the two coaches as it allowed Toho's centre-backs, as they have done throughout the season, they would like to push. to midfield to even things up, which may have been what Pep was anticipating along the way - in particular, Mars and de Bruyne are very close, ready to run into the space created if Rudiger were to press the midfielder, but the faith of His work in his defense paid off.

City left without being able to find that pass to break the line, but Chelsea also adapted to this possible overload by leaving their three forwards deeper and Werner in particular moved to Gundam One, which would free up Giorgino and Kanté to pick up City's floaters between the lines, like de Bruyne, when he dropped deep, City's backline looked to set the mountain's times by retaining the ball, but when the Chelsea striker looked to press, they used their cover shadows effectively To still cover the route to midfield, Zinchenko's position on the left sometimes extended the halfway point, allowing Sterling to receive and have a one-on-one, however, James never gave him time to turn, which made This was ineffective for City, but more importantly Chelsea were content to sit quite deep, meaning City never had space between them.

On the lines, space was generally available to City's defenders outside the tight block, but Chelsea did not mind this situation as there is a limited goal threat. City had minor success when overloading the left side, as Sterling can then be played with. behind with the pace he was able to beat James, which we saw in one case, but for the most part Chelsea felt comfortable defensively, so Pep could have done something different personally. I don't think the personnel were necessarily the problem, but the system Chelsea use is. a bad matchup for the cities back four, if you want to see how I think Pep could have done better in our preview of this match, I speculated on how he could have used the back five which I think could have been more effective, although, of course, Pep knows it. better than me, so I'll link that video below and also leave a timestamp in the comments of that video to indicate the part where I talk about the back five, but overall, from start to finish, Chelsea dominated without needing the ball to execute their plan also means Toho won three in a row against Pep after not winning for so long, but what did you make of the match?

Leave it in the comments below and thank you for all the support during the 2020 2021 season. A quick shout out to my patreons for helping make this video possible if you want to support head over to patreon.com. Football is simple and you'll get rewards like early access to videos and exclusive content, and a special thanks to my patreons including astra fauzi andrei tanasi and philip jorgasten for helping make this video possible, but that's all for today and remember, keep it up simple.