All of which begs the question, how will Premiership coaches combat this approach?
I like his point that the system depends on players being able to break the press; Bissouma and Madison are great at it, while Kulu-shaker is not bad although maddeningly he does not seem to have the pace to take advantage of the two steps he gains through beating his marker.
In all of the analysis I have seen of Ange, which admittedly is not much, I have not seen as much emphasis on his nationality as I would expect. The Aussies have a "back yourself" mentality. What's the phrase I am looking for, here? "To dare is to do", so to speak. If Spurs can adopt that mentality throughout the club then that will be a good thing, even if it means running out Jonny Bairstow occasionally.
The other thing I got from that YouTube analysis was how out-of-date my football terminology is.
I am sure in my day (the era of Soccer Stars, a pivot was a centre-back.
A "four" was the defensive midfielder - Billy Bremner, Nobby Stiles, Alan Mullery. The "six" was the more mobile of the two centre-backs - Bobby Moore, Chopper, Bites Your Legs, Kevin Beattie.
The creative midfielder was the 10 - John White, El Veg, Ghod - while the 8 was the inside forward (ask your grandfather).
While I am moaning/commenting intelligently on terminology, if "inverted wingers" are wingers who play on the "wrong" side (left-footers on the right) then whatever Ange's full-backs are, they ain't inverted; tucked-in, maybe.
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