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Newcastle’s tactics, Chelsea under Pochettino and Leeds & Leicester relegated

Tifo Football Podcast

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The Importance of Tempo in Football

The Arctic Monkeys song Paranoid Android has loads of tempo changes. If we apply it to football, try and not go off road like I normally would. Then what you get is like if you're playing football, right? It's why players like obviously Leel Messi are amazing because you'll just not go the same way as everyone. And that's how you end up getting these spaces because people haven't read it. But a messy goal against Athletic Club in 2015 where he starts to sprint, slows down and then goes again. The three defenders that are trying to get the ball off him have reacted to him slowing down and then they can't react to him speeding up again. That

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