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Xavi Alonso is fast gaining a top reputation in his first season as coach of Bayer Leverkusen – one of his areas of tactical innovation is to bring back the “libero”. Site lead Adam Scully explains all
Adam is then back for the weekly TFA Podcast and joined by Scott Martin to discuss Scott’s recent piece for the magazine, Tacticians vs Ideologues. Having delved back into 15 years worth of data, are adaptable tacticians are more successful than the Arsene Wenger’s of the football world? Find out by listening to the pod
Luis Kircher looks at Hertha Berlin’s struggles this season
At TFA, we love teams who beat the system and overachieve compared to their wage budget or transfer spend – Clermont Foot in Ligue 1 are a great example, so our French football expert Fintan O’Reilly analyses their success this season
John Lammers is taking Heracles back to the Eredivisie at the first time of asking – Brandon Liss dives deep into the tactical approach that is leading to promotion
Carlos Carvalhal continues to be one of the most interesting coaches in Europe from an innovative tactical perspective – Ahmed el-Daly explains how his adaptability has revived Celta de Vigo this season
ICYMI, we launched the May TFA Magazine this week – packed full of articles, data viz and insights and read by many, many industry leaders in football. To get your copy, all you need is a monthly or annual TFA membership – and for that membership you get a second monthly magazine, the entire magazine back catalogue from Nov 2018 (85 magazines!), 40+ new articles per month and the article archive of 8000+! Get the latest magazine now
With a 1-0 win over Sheffield United last night, Neil Warnock has successfully guided Huddersfield Town to safety in the Championship – we recently analysed the experienced coach’s tactics to see how he has done it
Napoli won the Scudetto for the first time since 1990 with a 1-1 draw at Udinese last night – this tactical analysis has explained how Luciano Spalletti successfully brought the Serie A title back to Naples
Bryan Gil scored for Sevilla last night in an important win over Espanyol in La Liga – read our scout report of the Tottenham Hotspur loanee
Raul de Tomas scored for Rayo Vallecano to push Andoni Iraola’s side back into European contention in Serie A – dive into our scout report of the former Real Madrid man
It’s awesome for us to see our Head of Women’s Football Analysis David Astill nominated for Writer of the Year in the On Her Side Awards. Please vote for him – the content he creates, not just for TFA, is always of the highest standard and we genuinely don’t think there are many doing better tactical analysis/scouting articles in the women’s game. Vote here!
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