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Published: December 16, 2024
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🔴 Manchester United Technical/Tactical Analysis vs Manchester City A Thread 🧵

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🧱 LOW/MID-BLOCK - Compact 5-2-2-1 to deny City central progression

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- Defensive coordination in handling opposition runners - Aggressive WCBs on City's interiors

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- Synchronisation when switching from mid-block -> press

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⚡ATTACKING TRANSITIONS - OOP shape gives numerical advantage in transitions - Small space players (Amad, Mount, Mainoo, Bruno) in close proximity

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- Narrow #10's create space for WBs

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⚽SETTLED POSSESSION - Wide overloads - Third-man circuits to find free man - Switch to underloaded side

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🏃‍♂️PRESSING - Hybrid approach

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- Willingness to push Mazraoui up to Nunes

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🟢BUILD-UP - Back 5 vs City's front 3 gives numerical adv. in the 1st phase - Overloads to isolate

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❌ EXECUTION/DECISION-MAKING ERRORS

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- Better execution in 2nd clip

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- Vertical tendencies still present

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- Failure to identify overloads on multiple occasions

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Amorim's team put on a solid performance. He's been able to instill clear principles in the 1st & 2nd phases while making United a more solid team defensively. There's still room for improvement, however, and his side are yet to display inventive patterns in the final 3rd.

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