Have Premier League teams forgotten how to defend?
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
The Unfashionable Defense First Tactics of Guano
The West Brom manager's quotes are pointing towards this discussion about a defense first tactical style or a reactive tactical style being unfashionable. I think there's a lot of parallels really to what Guano says and that perception on it, of how they want the game to be played - just in this case it's a lot more defensively than it is in possession. The control point is interesting, because if you flip that to a lot of the imposition stuff, that's kind of what Guano just speaks about as well. It's just more broadly that managers for the most part seem to really hate transition and a lack of control. They want either their team to be dictated in the game without
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