In the middle of the week, in a 1-0 win over Tottenham for the English championship, Manchester City seemed another team in the way to play, unrecognizable. Instead of pressing, having the ball and choking the opponent, as he always did, retreated to close the spaces with two lines of four and then counterattack. Guardiola has shown that she also knows how to organize a team the way they do so many other coaches.
As City Hall in Fourth Place in the English Championship, which gives the Champions League place, Guardiola must have found safer to change the strategy. The minimum score reflects this conduct. Will it be in the next games, even at home, will he repeat the new tactical formation?
The two lines of four started with the world champion of the world in 1966. Despite so many strategic evolutions in world football, this tactical design perhaps is still the most used in the world. In front, it can be a duo of attackers or an offensive sock and a center forward.
Things come and go in football. “Life goes around, life is not even from us,” wrote João Guimarães Rosa.
At the beginning of football, the teams played with two defenders, three midfielders and five strikers. The center-center was the team organizer, the best pass player. Over time, he was replaced, especially in Brazil, by the marker steering wheel. This has changed. Today, one of the most desired players in Europe is the centralized steering wheel (center-medium) articulator, which starts the plays with great passes, such as Roda. In Brazil, the promising and skilled steering wheels are cast from the base categories such as offensive socks or ends. A midfielder star missing in the national team is missing.
In the 60s, almost every team played with two open, fast and dribbling ends. The left tip used the left-handed leg, and the right-handed right. They dribbled to the bottom line and crossed. Today is the opposite. The lefties plays on the right, and the right -handed right away. Dribble to the center to define the plays. The ideal is the tip dribble for both sides. Some have already done this, such as the young Stephen, from Palmeiras, and Lamine Yamal of Barcelona.
As the teams already have tips, rare are the supporters, something that was an important mark of Brazilian football for decades. It is missing the sides bright sides that mark and have great passes.
Football has evolved a lot in many ways. The teams are more intense, compact, press the marking, exchange more passes from the goalkeeper and are much more accurate in some technical gestures, such as corner kicks and heading headings.
In my daily walks, to strengthen the soul and body, many, usually older people, say that in the past there were much more great players than in the present. There are controversies. At all times, there are stars, good and bad players.
Others say it was easier to play in the past because there were more spaces. There are also controversies. Because of the many spaces, the good ones shone more, and the bad soon showed their limitations. Today, with the marking very close, the medians often impress for the intensity. But over time, things come to their places.
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