What is Positional Play?
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- What is Positional Play?
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What is Positional Play? Where did it come from? What are its benefits? How can you spot it?
Think of Pep Guardiola. Think of Johan Cruyff. Think of Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea. And even Michael Laudrup’s Swansea.
Explained by Alex Stewart, illustrated by Alice Devine.
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#Tactics #Guardiola #MCFC
4:05 that striker has been offside for about 34 years
Scoring for fun though isn't he 😂😂👍🏼
Came here for the same thing
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Beat me to it, well noticed sir.
Of all the basic principles the rule for the 3rd man is the most importnat one imo..Here is what Xavi Hernandez said in an interview : “The third man is impossible to defend, impossible … I’ll explain what it means. Imagine Piqué wanting to play with me, but I’m marked, I have a marker (defender) on me, a very aggressive guy. Well, it is clear that Piqué can not pass it to me, it is evident. If I move away, I’ll take the marker with me. Then, Messi goes down and becomes the second man. Piqué is the 1st, Messi the 2nd and I the 3rd. I have to be very alert, right?! Piqué, then plays with the 2nd man, Messi, who returns it, and at that moment I’m an option. I’m now free of my marker who has moved to defend closer to the ball. Now I’m totally unmarked and Piqué passes me the ball. If my marker is looking at the ball, cannot see that I’m unmarked and then I appear, I’m the third man. We have already achieved superiority. This is indefensible, it’s the Dutch school, it’s Cruyff. It is an evolution of the Dutch triangles. (…) To look for the third man is, for example, that the central players have the ball and one of them is always open because you always have one player more than opposing strikers. In that case, Puyol has the ball and goes up, up and up until a defender challenges him. If the defender who tries to stop him is my marker, then the third man happens to be me! If it is Iniesta’s marker who moves to challenge Puyol , then Andres is the third man. And so we seek superiority in any area of the field. You make a three against two, you win and you have the third man. We advance positions up the field”
Could you please put on the link of that interview?
Thanks for your comment, it truly made sense to me!
@@bernardojsvamorim sorry, its not a quote from an interview..it's a quote from an article from this site - spielerverlagerung.
@@tribalcho Thanks. I'll read it! Have a wonderful week 🤙🏼
Thanks alot man! It really made me grasp the idea
He’s explaining the importance of not only passing in possesion tactics but also dribbling. Once you take on someone successfully or somebody comes to tackle you it removes a man out of the equation so you could play the ball.
The way that he said coaches in the beginning is sublime
Voice of a 30 year old, voicecracks of a 12 year old
I swear
@@edwinlam4679 Older than you think is our Joe 😉
Ahaha I didn't notice that but that's killed me
Tifo is ASMR for football fans
Apart from being one of the best players, Johan Cruijff created this in his mind when footballers where just kicking a ball around. That's insane football intelligence. Not only that, he did it in the early 70's and 50 years later managers try to adept and understand this. Absolute genius.
Herbert Chapman used positional play principles to implement a new formation not seen by English football at the time
Actually there is a clear line from Cruyff and R.Michels to Hungarian coach G.Sebes and English coach J.Hogan before him.
More of an evolution rather than an invention
*4:35* What a poor number 9, always caught offside. No wonder Guardiola prefers a false 9
😂😂😂
Gabriel Jesus every now and again, at least he better than Morata now
@@Anonassassin is he really tho?
Always happens in these videos. Defending team are statues, attacking team move as fast as Usain Bolt or attacker knocking it in 20 yards offside.
@@fLightTakesFlight Lol true! It's debatable for sure, my man can't even take over from Aguero after YEARS at the club.
“Lots of rotation” all FPL managers know about that with Pep
😂
Ah yes, the beloved Pep Roulette
Yes. Never captain a City forward. I’ve made that mistake way to many times
Every single fucking time😂
In this respect, rotation means rotation of players already on the pitch. Like Bernardo playing RB while Stones rushes forward. Or Cancelo playing the second holding role to allow Gundogan to drift up and left.
Is it weird that football related things I searched for on RUclips suddenly ends up as content of TiFo. This has happened 3 times in now. Literally searched for Positional play a couple of days ago
Great minds... 🤜🤛
@@Tifo or may be you guys are tapping our search history!!🙊
@@tptitus 👀
@@tptitus ...I like this theory much better 😂😂
You searched for it and it popped up for you. I was thinking about it in my mind and this video popped up on my you tube home page.
4:05 damn I thought Inzaghi retired
Good to see him back
That was funny.
“positional play is a number of simple ideas which together are extremely difficult to coach and implement correctly…” And I thought I would only ever hear this from my wife...
Bruh
Haha, great
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hhhh
Thats what she said
"Haters will call it goalhanging, I call it positional play" - The striker probably
Hahaha
Ronaldo be like
@@dude99844 which one?
@@dude99844 Or when you dribble selfishly and lose the ball when you could've made a pass, like Messi does.
@@abdulwahidalhassani5129 bro chill im just making a joke lol, dont have to be so butthurt
Nice to hear Michael Laudrop being mentioned, very underrated player and coach
"Football is not about moving the ball, but about moving the opposition." - Pep Guardiola.
Or something to that effect, anyway 🤣
Last time I was this early PSV hadn't signed Ibrahim Sangare yet
Oh shit did he finally get a transfer
@@joecaird517 half a year ago
@@joecaird517 the New Tifo underrated meme player is Yves Bissouma.
@@otto_jk hehehe
@@otto_jk wdym?
4:06 OFFSIDE!!
Come onnnnn REF, thats a clear one!!! what are you doinnnnnn
Football leagues corrupt
ONE OF THE BEST FOOTBALL CHANNEL OUT THERE. CHANGE MY MIND.
Agree
The best actually
Sadly I cannot. As you are 100% correct
Just waiting for this to blow up
I can't
Plz tifo can you do a another video on Sergio busquets ,Thomas Muller? Felt like they are too much disrespected and Underappreciated by normal football fans.
They already have in the past.
Who disrespects them?
@@lucozade8373 Busquets is massively disrespect by our own fans now
When everyone says a player is underrated they stop being underrated. That’s where players like busquets, muller and Fernandinho are at. Everyone’s aware they’re class players just not the flashiest or most electrifying so they don’t get too much attention . I think that’s fine; at the end of the day football is about entertaining paying fans so it makes sense the flashy players get the limelight.
@@heehee4651 you are smart
I was planning on going to sleep at 2 am but tifo uploaded a video 🤷🏾♂️
Mate it’s 3:30
The goal at 4:05 was clearly offside, even VAR could get that right
Even ENGLISH* Var could get it right
Leeds is a good example of this too, it helps the players to adapt to multiple roles within a system
Bloody hell. One of the requirements of becoming a football manager in the future will be a university degree in physics.
Thank you Rinus Michels and Johann Cruyff for creating and developing total football and makes football today enjoy to watch.
I am a coach working with this playing style every single day...
The single most important principle in this philosophy is the free man. You want to create superiorities by the help of several subprinciples like zonal structure and the third man to generate an unmarked player, the free man, to progress the ball fairly risk-free up the pitch
The reason you see teams with this philosophy retaining the ball for excessive periods of time is cus they are not able to find the free man, thus circulating the ball and patiently looking to create a new superiority and free man
I feel uncomfortable if I'm not wearing a suit and tie watching tifo vids
The thought of what you would be doing if you got to the F.A Cup Final on Football Manager is worrying 🥳
Can you do an analysis of how referees are playing at their own games, interpreting football in ways that are anathema to actual football players. Examples would include, not knowing the difference between a foul and simulation. Not treating simulation as cheating. Seeing robust ball winning aerial challenges as fouls; not seeing that reversing under a jumping player is dangerous play; adding more or less ‘added time’ depending on the club that needs more time, rather than the actual amount and duration of injuries and delays, restarts etc. Please?
That's a phenomenal question!!! I loved all the details, it seems like we speak the same language, i also make a bunch of questions like this, but i never thought about how a game it's viewed from the referee's perspective, how they think (and i think this is specially interesting with football given all it's trickery).
Laudrup's Swansea were a treat to watch. They played absolutely brilliant football that got the best out of the likes of Dyer, Routledge, Ki, Pablo Hernandez, Chico Flores, Ashley Williams, De Guzman, Shelvey, Britton, Davies and the great Michu. That team was fantastic and deserved the Carling Cup they won that season. I was sad to see their downfall but hope they come back next season.
Yes wilson aaa
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This is just amazing. Positional playing is really difficult but when mastered is unstoppable !
Can you make a video about Chelsea's transformation under Thomas Tuchel. What has he changed tactically? I noticed he played Kai Havertz as a false nine against Crystal Palace and it worked to perfection
always like learning about concepts through your videos, one thing i would like to see is a section on how it comes undone/how are teams successfully against it
Thank you for letting me know about this strategy. I will use it in team matches against my friends for sure ! (I don’t mind it being difficult to execute)
Great video. Please make more content like this on on other tactics and perhaps coaching styles and philosophies! I feel like I'm learning more then usual! Thanks
4:05 I think that's an off-side
Every time
Reference to Michael Laudrup’s Swansea 😍
Shelvey
Donald trump
only real ones know
This is basically zonal and man-to-man markings being implemented at the same time. Genius.
Would love to see a video on the decline of Ipswich Town and their future prospect under new ownership.
Agreed!!
thanks alot... your training videos is improving my game... my coach and team mates are really proud of the player i am becoming... thanks alot
It's crazy how you see this kind of game play out over 90 mins, and how it really exemplifies a game of "trust" in the team itself. You see, especially evident with Pep teams more than others, that players are more passing the ball to *areas* rather than other players. They trust that someone will know to be there when they pass it, and often don't need to look twice before making the pass. And almost without fail, somebody will be in that area, because that's what they have trained. As a team, they become less reactive to the opposition and more proactive about how to get the ball where they want it. It matters less *who* is being marked, and more about *where* the marking is occurring, so the ball can just be clipped into a zone and one of the free men will pick it up inevitably. It's so hard to defend against when the team is fully fluid and properly drilled.
Watching Tuchel build Chelsea into this system is great because you can see it take shape, flaws and all. When teammates are not on the same wavelength or not expecting a pass or just too comfortable playing a static role then everything just breaks down and you have to start again, which is why you see the ball recycled endlessly between the CBs and wing-backs without moving forward because everyone else is still learning their movements. I made some comments earlier in the year about how this is actually making a player like Ziyech look a lot worse than they are, because they're picking out these incredible passes but nobody is running onto them so it looks like they just passed to nobody and wasted possession. Same with Gilmour - I think that's why Tuchel is hesitant to use him because his key strength (like Fabregas was) is threading the needle with his passing and vision, but if the forward players are static or haven't got their heads up to rotate into zones, then it's pointless.
Finally, some videos teach people how having good players is not everything, and you also need to know what to do with them.
Moving the opposition is the end product of positional play. This is why I think Xavi would become a game changer. His idea is to utilize positional play to give individual players time to think of their next move rather than just pass or cross. Watching Man City now and watching Barcelona in the Xaviesta era it becomes obvious they were the catalysts and Messi was their executioner. Pep taught them magic, they brought us beauty.
Can you please do a sensible transfers video for Juventus? Love the content
Sign big money free agents in their prime on massive wages who subsequently fail to reach the same levels before being knocked out of the Champions League early.
Done.
I think Ronaldo out is the sensible choice. He's great but he's a liability for defence because he can't get fast enough behind the ball. Also the Champions league loss was partly his fault. That wall was awful.
Problem with Football Manager is the inability to develop tactics in this way. Like sure you can tell your players to roam from position but it's not the same.
Same with PES and FIFA really. I find the sports game that most approaches the nuances of it's real counterpart is NBA 2k. Perhaps due to basketball being simpler to depict than football.
Please do a video on the Spanish 3rd division structure this season and how it is being re-organized for 2021-22, i tried to read about it today and had no idea what was going on @tifofootball
I'll try. Spanish football until very recently was structured like this: 1st Division (20 teams), 2nd Division (22 teams), 2nd Division B (4 leagues of 20 teams, semi-professional) and 3rd Division (18 leagues of 20 teams, mostly amateur).
Last season all leagues under 2nd Division were not finished due to pandemic and there were no relegations so the spanish football federation used the oportunity to restructure. Starting next season the structure will be like this: 1st Division (20 teams), 2nd Division (22 teams), 1st Division RFEF (2 leagues of 20 teams, semi-pro), 2nd Division RFEF (5 leagues of 18 teams, semi-pro) and 3rd Division RFEF (18 leagues of 18 teams, amateur).
The system of promotion and relegation during the current transition season is complex but it could be summarized like this: 4 of the 102 teams in Segunda B (3rd tier) will promote to Segunda División (2nd tier), 36 of the remaining 98 teams in current Segunda B (3rd tier) will play the new Primera RFEF league (3rd tier), joined by the 4 teams relegated from Segunda División 8 (2nd tier). The 62 remaining teams of Segunda B (3rd tier) wil be either relegated to Segunda RFEF (4rth tier) or Tercera RFEF (5th tier). Top teams of the current Tercera División (4th tier) will compete to "promote" to Segunda RFEF (new 4th tier) or "stay" in Tercera RFEF (new 5th tier).
I hope this explanation helped.
Now I finally got to understand what positional playing is. Thanks man!
Very informative thank you. I was wondering what other plays, besides positional, exist within the current systems. How would you coin Mourninho's or Klopp's play?
VAR might wanna have a check on these goals.
Has the W-M Formation returned?
Please do a video on Man City and Cancelo tactics, everytime Cancelo goes into midfield next to Rodri, City's attack set-up resembles the classic W-M Formation...has Pep perfected it? Has history gone full circle? Only Tifo can let us know!
Good video by the way!
pep has done that since bayern
It seems the ruled of office is not taught in positional play with the amount of offside goals in this video. Non the less very informative!
I'm from India i follow your content for quite some time, you're doing an amazing job and all videos are in depth and interesting keep it up
Just want to say this is by far one of my favourite channels on RUclips, amazing content
Keep up the great work!
5:22 That's crazy!!! Really creative, it reminds me the "overload" concept of Cryuff's Netherlands (not surprising).
those goals are tiny - the way that striker squeezed it in at 3:33 was unbelievable!
The linesman was asleep tho
Please can you make a video on Ajax’s academy, and the principals behind it
3:08 That's so coooool!!! 😍
After watching many of tifos video, i feel like a football expert 😆
This system seems to have no concept of the offside rule 😂. Otherwise great video.
Thoose videos are missed, really great as much as it is simple
I think Liverpool uses that too.Pressing,counter pressing, mid covering for full backs,overloads and switching of play
Definitely. It's not even a question.
This is actually a fantastic explanation, thank you!
These are just too theoretical to implement. Not saying that they are worthless but at the end of the day, quality of the players is everything.
Pep is a very good coach no doubt but I dont think he is the best because he knows "everything". He has and had great, great players and they can and they did execute main principals of good football.
So, these are nice things to think but football is too complicated to put these theories 1st line of the success.
This is my favourite tactical..play position play and create more passes and try to score at any suprise position
Bielsa beating this system with a significantly weaker team makes it all the more amazing.
Tbf, Bielsa's gameplan totally went to bits after the red card. Second half was a study in character and will for the Leeds team.
This is the content I subscribed for
Messi has Been a Missing Piece for Many Managers . Messi is a strange kind of player on whom you can Make a Team around & not at the same time. Allegri said that too & even Many managers know that. To attain Positional Play on superior level , you need a Player like that & when he's young , it's even Better. Pep plays with Brain & one of the things that I really like about his teams are , they're never built around one player but all are pieces.
Zone-dine Zidane and Math-ias Sum-mer would be ideal in midfield for positional play
Hey could you make a video about Lingard at West Ham?
This blew me away
Perfect video, without music, it could be ever better . Thanks
Can you please highlight tactics of pep guardiola at Barcelona in nxt video .........
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Pioli's AC Milan plays similarly. Coupled with a high press and good hold up by Zlatan, they have improve vastly. The only thing holding them back is the countless injuries.
I was just anxiously waiting for this
Guardiola is honestly the smartest brains in football. The man is a beast!
Why is it so hard for Pirlo to understand this 🙃
Awesome vid.
Wow
Just checked whether the winger in 3:14 is onside, can confirm he is
Pls can you talk about Chelsea's tactics
This is going to bang in my fifa pro-clubs group
Thank you very much and it helps to develop my coaching skills as a development coach 🙌 .
Football is beautiful above and below the surface.
Outstanding video. Very informative.
I think for someone who's learning coaching. I would love some match footage and in detail coverage of each topic.
Your content is important to us. I wish we had examples to deduct from immediately.
Excellent video as always, but when are we getting a 15 minute animated player data and facts Joe triviabase?
I regulaly watch your videos and because you ask so nicely i just subscribed to the Channel. You do Great work, Best of luck also After reaching 1milion subscribers 🙃👍
Loved this video 👍👍 can you describe pros and cons of counter attacking teams like this ??
Ole watching this rn and laughing
I could swear zidane uses this in his real madrid team. Often casemiro players higher up the field than modric and kroos who sit deeper during build up. The create wide overloads before switching the player. Benzema freely roams and can aid in creating these overloads often times being found in central midfield or out wide.
They have positional switches but don't really play positional play
Awesome video. Thank you!
Thanks for your explanation, it's going to improve me tactically.
Gerrard and Beale have brought this ethos to Rangers
It helps create beautiful football but also very good when defending
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more of these videos please thanks
Please make a video on Mourinho's coaching success with every club
Pls make a vedio on counter attack strategy
That would be a great idea
Wao fabulous video!
yep, subscribed
needs to do a vid on the euefa conference league
Great work! TY!
Which applikation is used to make these wonderful animations? I love them :)
A Laudrup call out! Awesome
Love the music from 1826 in the background..
Sir alex's team was a perfect example of rotation play and pep guardiola's city is pure beast due to same reason the success of united under ole is also somewhat a credit to rotational play where the full backs move up higher and the midfielders cover for them but united lack this in their front three as only bruno can play in any position others lack this ability and hence teams get through by marking bruno and the front three get no service and depend on long balls from the centre backs.
Yes tifo great video again