Tactical Analysis : Manchester City 1 – 2 Chelsea | A Fascinating Tactical Battle |

this video is sponsored by manscaped, the premium global brand of men's hygiene and care products hello and welcome back to football, simple fact, two teams that have fabulous seasons prepare to face each other while pep

city

hosted the turkish

chelsea

, A victory would have secured the title for City while Chelsea needed the victory to maintain a strong position in the top four, at the same time it served as a warm-up for the Champions League final and in the end the match ended 2-1 for

chelsea

thanks to goals from alonso and zieg after sterling opened for

city

, xg indicated that city had better chances 1.79 to 0.62 the xg time map showed that even without the penalty, the city created more, but what tactics each coach used, let's take a look, but first, just in case, no You still don't know what Manscaped is, it's the best company when it comes to grooming, whether you shave over or under below the belt with trimmers for all the places your hair grows, and as of today, they've launched their new 4th generation trimmer, the Lawn Mower 4.0.

It is completely waterproof, cordless and very precise thanks to its ceramic blades, in addition to lasting 90 minutes on a single charge, that's right, a whole set of trims on just one charge and the best part is that you can get 20 off and shipping free. Now by clicking the link below and using the offer code fms you help support the channel. A quick reminder of the Pep and Turkle formations, let's first look at the city and the unusual Pep formation. the city was generally able to find its centre-backs in the first phase. and they lined up in a 1 2 2 with ferran and sterlina acting almost like 3 8. and chelsea did try to put pressure but in the first half in particular it was ineffective and they ended up with a pass per defensive action of almost 20. they had a clear pressure of Gilmore's four-man blanket with Rodri and the three forwards looking to put pressure on the centre-backs, however, this meant that Kante was often two against one down in midfield, dealing with Sterling and Ferran Torres from the start with Jesus and Agüero at the top. pinning the back three time and time again, Sterling in particular was able to receive the ball between the lines and run towards the defense or combine with one of the forwards who had dropped deeper and was looking to get into dangerous positions, but a coach as good as toho .

I was always going to adapt to this, one of the ways on the left was to get Asper Equator to push up to better keep an eye on Sterling in midfield, leaving Christensen and Rudiger man to man, but Pep is also a great coach and had one answer to this as we often saw City looking to take advantage of this on the left with Sterling drawing the Aspen equator high, there was space behind Chelsea's high line and we saw City lit up to

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Mendy with the ball on over a few times with some. good success after a while, aspel equator would be called in with doubts whether to pressure Sterling or cover behind reese james and as Sterling was also faster than Aspen Equator, having dragged him further up the field, he could then run behind to get.

On the longer ball end, Toho could sometimes drop Zirch deeper when pressing, which would allow Gilmore and Kante to cover the midfield better. However, this opened up space for Aki and in particular in the first half Aki would take advantage of this high drive. and looking to cause danger in the right place, things were slightly different for City again. We saw centre-back Rudiger push high towards midfield to cover when there was a man down in midfield following Ferrantorius, but instead of the full-back looking to run. In space it was Jesús who consistently looked to make the diagonal run into the space created while one on one with the centre-back and we see this reward in the goal.

Rudiger and Alonso press high, so Agüero and Jesús are one on one with the centre-backs and City looks for the ball high on Jesús Christensen's mistake, then allows Jesús to take the ball and squares it and, finally, Sterling finishes In the second half Turko's pressing style changed once again with pressure from Ziek and Werner. in a two with pulisic deeper on the right so that aki did not have all the time and space with the ball as he did before and at the same time allowed the midfield to be covered better, but what did Twohole's men do with the ball that they generally like to build? came up short with Aspen Equator in a deep slot of the right defense being the way out, City would initially press with the border and once Aspel Equator received Sterling he would then push to pressure him with a man covering the freed pivot in midfield However, the City press were not at their most effective with their passing for defensive action from 13.

So Chelsea's centre-backs were generally able to receive the ball higher up the pitch and, on occasion, Ferrantars initially started narrower as Chelsea looked to flood the midfield at times but as always this would subsequently allow Ruediter the space to push further up the pitch which we know he is happy to do and down the left Chelsea had success, particularly when Farron was wider, as he would constantly allow zx to fall deeper and deeper and Diaz would look to follow him. In these deep regions to be touched hard again and again in these situations, Verna made an inside-out run to get on the end of a ball behind the high line, but was called offside.

There were often similar patterns on the right with Aki looking. I followed Pulisic dropping deep but it was James' quality that shone as he was able to look for Werner who would once again be making these runs with the centre-back having moved higher but James' one-on-one ability was key as in more on one occasion when he received it one on one with mendy he left him for dead and got into great positions we see that all this culminates in the winning goal james receives a ball drawing deep into zinchenko who had come in when mandy was struggling to deal with james and we see Hudson, our goal has dropped deeper and moved higher, this has created space behind the three defenders and again we see Verna running in and out every time the center back has been taken out of position and This time Werner's cutout is able to find.

Alonso, whose circular shot finds the back of the net. Overall, neither team were at their best today, but Tujo will be delighted with his place in the top four and looks all but assured. Pep will be disappointed with the result, but after having made so many experimental changes, that is not the case. It was the most unexpected result, but I'd love to know what you personally made of Pep's experiment. I think it mostly worked by getting into dangerous positions between the lines, but they were let down at the finish once again, so guys, don't forget to head.

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