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

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

- Synchronisation when switching from mid-block -> press

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

- Narrow #10's create space for WBs

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

🏃‍♂️PRESSING - Hybrid approach

- Willingness to push Mazraoui up to Nunes

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

❌ EXECUTION/DECISION-MAKING ERRORS

- Better execution in 2nd clip

- Vertical tendencies still present

- Failure to identify overloads on multiple occasions

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.