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Why football left Mesut Ozil & 'the specialists' behind

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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How to Play at Number 10 in the Premier League

Foden's an interesting one because if you were to get a kind of heat map of all his touches since he started playing Premier League, I bet the average position would be as a number 10. Mount is really appreciated for what he does off the ball in particular but also think he's probably the best of that generation of players actually receiving the ball between the lines. We're seeing a lot of wingers now sort of be retrained into that number eight - Palace have done it with Eze this season. Harvey Elliott, Fulham was a number 10 slash winger and I live one now playing on sort of a mid-field three. And that was Southgate. So Rosh

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