
Joe. 🔎
@automatisms_
🔴 Manchester United Technical/Tactical Analysis vs Manchester City A Thread 🧵
🧱 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.