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Why football left Mesut Ozil & 'the specialists' behind

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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The Importance of Intensity in Football

Intensity is one of football's favourite buzzwords, but what does it mean? I'd never really thought about the fact it's slightly difficult to define before. It's definitely something that anyone that watches football thinks that they can see even from the stands or from TV,. But we've spoken quite a lot about actual physical data in terms of how much ground someone's actually covering. Doesn't always tally up with the eye test. There are still some serious biases that the human brain gives you and sometimes based on the way that they move rather than the speed at which they move.

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