
The Rise of the Eights, the Fall of the Fullbacks
The Double Pivot: Soccer analysis, analytics, and commentary
The Consequences of Plugging in Eights for Teams
There are compelling reasons why a lot of these teams might want to play this way and also wouldn't yet have eights that are good fits for these systems. And I think that's where it's worth getting to the other team that was that was brought up with Mountain Fernandez at Manchester United, because Eric Tenhogg in a somewhat different way had much more reserved fullbacks. The shot distribution is not most of these teams, even as we talk about all these like fun crazy things they're doing; the shot distribution is still heavily contained in the front three.
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