Why football left Mesut Ozil & 'the specialists' behind
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
The Decline of Strikers in Europe
The specialist has massively sort of died out because now you're playing with one striker for most teams. Spain and Germany who were the two dominant nations about a decade ago just aren't producing many top quality strikers I mean they're producing so many kind of number 10s and or versatile attacking playersyou can play in various positions but I don't have that many center fours, it's weird.
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