orange poster call glue is transforming Tottenham it is only four games into the season but they have already been plenty of positive signs for Spurs Spurs said unbeaten in second only behind Guardiola City and have scored the second most goals in the league all of this is despite having lost the Premier League's second all-time top scorer and fueled in the sixth youngest 11 in the league as we'll see it hasn't always been smooth sailing for Big Ang but why exactly have Spurs been so tactically interesting this season let's take a look Spurs looking fluid in
the face of so much overhaul is impressive and a look at this season's most frequently used 11 shows that only three of these players played more than half the available minutes last season the formation has also changed massively as last season 89 of spurs's league matches saw a back three formation and now we have a dedicated 4t3 one the style of play has also evolved greatly last season Spurs average less than 50 possession per match only the ninth most in the League this season that's already up to 59.1 percent the fifth most in the league
while their XG per 90 this season is over two compared to just 1.5 last season but enough of the numbers what is happening on the pitch the change begins right from the back with the carrier beginning much shorter than Loris who struggles with the ball at his feet with the carrier only going long with 20 of his gold kicks compared to loris's 33 percent to be fair to the Frenchman this is partly because aren't poster cogloo system is designed to play out from the back Spurs will tend to split their center-backs wide and is bisuma
has been fully entrusted by poster cogley to be the deepest pivot to receive the first pass in fact the Malian is quickly becoming the Hub of the team being the target of a pass from his teammates most often as teams press the goalkeeper were looking to cut off the center-backs with their cover Shadow The Zuma is comfortable receiving Under Pressure to give a wall pass to the center-back who can then advance but he also has great match intelligence as if his presser looks to anticipate the pass to the center-back he can turn on a dime
evade in the press and now moving the team higher up the pitch but teams do press well at times covering basuma and looking to stop the supply but anja's system is solution-oriented rarely is basuma a single pivot and the right back in Emerson but more often poro are targeted to be the inverted fallback while saw or skip push higher up into the right hand space It should be mentioned that poro is not the perfect inverted fool and can be vulnerable to the Press lead into some dicey situations when teams have backed up the Press well
but once again Spurs are rather fluid and have Solutions when facing consistent pressure and the signing of James Madison is beginning to look like a real bargain a natural attack in midfielder of course when the side is under pressure he is great at dropping deep at PACE to create a temporary three versus two receive the ball turn and advance higher up the pitch if the opposition Midfield follows deep there are now the problems of massive gaps between the lines where the carrier could look for a chipboard into SAR foreign or if it was the winner
covering poro Deepa allowing an opposition midfielder to also remain deep on saw there is still the matter of udogi who can be a wide Outlet or push into an inverted Midfield position to still receive that chipped pass but in open play things get really interesting as postercogloo looks to maintain his flexibility poster card glue side have been brave on the ball and where most teams would build with a back three either through dropping a defensive midfielder or tucking in a fullback Orange has entrusted Van Der Fein and Romero to build as a two as much
as possible and that gives them an extra man to utilize elsewhere primarily in the midfield for the overload and Pastor koglu's use of inverted fallbacks is quite interesting as he plays with two inverted fallbacks in this previous video we talked about the types of inverted fullbacks and most commonly when sides are using two inverted fullbacks it is usually a defensive inverter paired with a controlling inverter which faster called rarely does or two controlling inverters in these zones which he does do at times with both udogi and Paro alongside basuma in the Midfield allowing saw and
Madison to be higher up in the half spaces but oftentimes he uses a rarer configuration that is a controlling inverter with poro becoming the second pivot was a doggy moves High rub into the left-hand half space so that at times there are temporarily Three Men Behind the forward this gives Spurs many options it is fairly rare for opposition teams to sit both of their Wingers on the inverting fullbacks and in fact we often see either a Winger or a midfielder advancing higher with the forward to try and create a 2 vs 2 in the Press
but generally his sides are looking to press both Spurs pivots deep firstly as discussed udogi has the scope to become the third man in the Midfield but Madison also has a lot of freedom especially if both of the men in the horse bases are high potentially pinning midfielders deep and Madison has really been thriving in this side using his freedom to drift wide when needed by also looking for opportunities to create for others or if he is given too much space he can be deadly from range in fact his 2.5 key passes per game are
the most in the side but at the same time he attends more shots than anybody else in the side making him a real threat but the roles of udogi and saw are quite interesting as they operate differently down the right hand side with Wingers sometimes looking to follow Paulo infield as he inverts space naturally opens up in this region as a result saw often drop deep in this region to pick up the ball in space and it is difficult for a midfielder to follow him due to the presence of Madison High up as well as
Richardson who often now looks to drop deep the positioning of Saw can often free up kulusevski to be in a one versus one situation and if a man is drawn wide creating new horse based Saul can then make the run into that space or they can be a rotation with poro darting into the horse base to receive the will fall across with saw tucking in tis natural Midfield position if the pass into the horse base does not materialize the right hand overload can still be enacted and now there is the potential for the switch to
the far side down the left on occasion we see similarities with the dogu coming deep left in a more traditional left back raw to pick up the ball however he tends to stay high we're on the far side the opposition Winger is happier to tuck into paru udogi's position is much harder to be tracked by the Winger due to being so Central and deep so often the opposition Midfield can be overloaded and with a dangerous on outward often drawing the attention of the fallback the space does often appear for udogi to attack and Spurs Canada
times then overload the box ready for the cutback from udogi or if the fullback opened up space for the cross the Winger can then look to cross it against Burnley we saw a preview of sun up front and it'll be interesting to see Pastor Carl Glu chooses to stick with this as richalderson's struggles continue but we've also seen problems with the spur system in the transitional phase this is because both fullbacks are diverted and although only having two center-backs in possession has its advantages on the defensive end of things it leaves them light so we
have seen many occasions where opposition have had success in hitting the areas behind the fullbacks hard on the counter-attack but the signs are bright for pasta corgloo and although spurs's start has had some tricky fixtures it will be interesting to see how the system holds up as the season progresses but I want to know in the comments where you think Pastor koglu side will finish if you enjoyed this video a like would be great and feel free to check out my patreon to get early access to new videos such as this one and it helps
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