One factor now we have observed throughout many video games thus far this season is a change in how groups are urgent excessive up the pitch.
If we take the Manchester Metropolis versus Spurs sport for instance, each groups had a winger urgent one of many centre-backs. We noticed Newcastle United's Anthony Elanga do that towards Aston Villa final week too.
On this week's instance, we may see Tottenham's Brennan Johnson urgent Ruben Dias.
CIty's Rico Lewis moved infield, taking one of many midfielders with him, and Rayan Cherki moved out vast, making an attempt to take advantage of this area. To make sure Cherki was unable to choose up the ball freely, Micky van de Ven adopted him all the way in which from centre-back.
For Metropolis, Oscar Bobb pressed Van de Ven and used Lewis to leap ahead to press Spurs left-back Djed Spence. This meant right-back Lewis needed to cowl a lot of distance to get out to the vast areas, in an identical technique to Van de Ven.
So what does this imply?
By having wingers urgent central defenders, area may open up out vast. In idea that is much less harmful than having area open up centrally.
However with area opening out vast, one participant will sometimes have elevated distances to cowl to make sure they get out to the opposition participant with their winger as a substitute urgent the centre-back.
Throughout the season, will probably be fascinating to see how groups look to assault down the flanks and which participant groups use to defend these vast areas, whether or not that's full-backs like Lewis or central defenders like Van de Ven.
