
World Cup Final tactical breakdown
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
I Think Demarria Is a Great Player and I'm Pleased With Him.
I'm never sure about these. I know Erzil really had a thing for it and it was obvious he was attempting it by the end. He's always been across between a wing and a box-to-box midfielder. In the few occasions where he's just allowed to play like an out and out winger like here in the 2014 Champions League final. It's quite rare these days that you see a left player playing on the left, generally going down the outside and causing full-back problems like that. There's not a lot of theories as to why France looked so poor for at least an hour of this game. And now he'll probably be remembered or should be remembered as
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