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The Rise of the Eights, the Fall of the Fullbacks

The Double Pivot: Soccer analysis, analytics, and commentary

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Pep Guardiola's Adjustment to the Problems in the System

The way that the eights get forward into the penalty area and the wingers do somewhat less. And I just feel like Pep is part of this conversation, but also he's already adjusting to the problems he saw with this when he did it four years ago. The drop to fullbacks being only about 40% of of cross attempts. That's just the standard percentage for teams outside the big six. It makes sense to its role on a weaker team because they're not going to be saying their fullbacks forward as much.

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