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The Art of winning 'without playing well'

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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The Cost of Not Playing Well

The phrase that's used more on the continent is that they say that they suffered a lot and the manager in a post-match interview will say that we have to suffer for long periods, but ultimately we've got the result or whatever. I'm sort of alluded to it, there's a certain way that we think these games play out. There's a certain dominance with the ball that we expect the favourite to have. In my head, this scenario often comes around when we don't see that and it's a little jarring that while that team, they really didn't dominate the ball nearly as much as we thought. So it comes back, Michael, to things not looking the way that

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