Reims boss Will Still garnered a cult following as the 30-year-old led his team to a 17-game unbeaten Ligue 1 run after taking charge back in October. However, his team’s unbeaten run finally came to an end a couple of weeks ago, as Marseille toppled Les Rouges et Blancs away...
Khéphren Thuram, the son of renowned French defender Lilian Thuram, has finally seen his arc grow after racking up plenty of game time for OGC Nice in 2022. His elder brother, Marcus Thuram, is also a professional footballer. Marcus plays for Borussia Monchengladbach in the Bundesliga and has represented France in...
With Christophe Galtier’s departure for PSG, a new coach will have the opportunity to take on the OGC Nice project. Les Aiglons have chosen former manager Lucien Favre this time and given him the chance to take over at the Allianz Riviera again. The Swiss manager was in charge of...
Borussia Dortmund’s 2020/21 Bundesliga campaign has been nothing short of a disappointment. They started the previous season strong, before falling off the pace and finishing 13 points behind eventual winners Bayern Munich. But this season, due to a terrible run of form which has led to Lucien Favre’s sacking, Dortmund...
After securing their spot in the knockout round of the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday, RB Leipzig took on Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga on Saturday. While Werder has put in a much better performance this season compared to last year’s, they still were no match for Leipzig, who saw...
The Olympiastadion held an exciting tie between two Bundesliga sides, Hertha Berlin, and Borussia Dortmund. This tactical analysis will take a deep dive into the game that finished 5-2 to the away side. Hertha, led by Bruno Labbadia, currently position themselves in 13th place, eight games into the new season....
An away success in Dortmund is always a big thing, even for the Champions League winners Bayern Munich. At the end of a match worth seeing, FC Bayern celebrated a 3-2 win in the Signal Iduna Park. Bayern remain first in the table, but apparently, Joshua Kimmich sustained a serious...
It is one of the most exciting and electrizing matches in world football: Borussia Dortmund against FC Bayern Munich. On Saturday, the German “Klassiker” will start at 6:30 pm MET in the Signal Iduna Park. Both teams started quite good in the new Bundesliga season as they both won 5...
Borussia Dortmund traveled to Bruges to take on Club Brugge in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday. The Dortmund attack swarmed all over Brugge early, scoring three in a span of 18 minutes, securing the three points in the process. This tactical analysis will examine the tactics used by both...
Borussia Dortmund put on an impressively dominant display in the first Revierderby of the season, coming out as 3-0 victors over Schalke in this Bundesliga fixture. Having lost 3-1 to Lazio in the Champions League a matter of days beforehand, Borussia Dortmund dusted themselves off, changed a few personnel and...
The new season in the Champions League started with some intriguing games, one of which was the meeting between Lazio (Serie A) and Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga). Simone Inzaghi managed to outwit Lucien Favre with the help of the players who successfully executed his tactics on the pitch. Relying on solid...
The PreZero Arena hosted a tight contest in the Bundesliga between TSG Hoffenheim and Borussia Dortmund. This tactical analysis will break down the game that ended as a 1-0 victory to Dortmund. Hoffenheim, led by Sebastian Hoeness, are having a very respectable start to the season under the new manager’s...
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim will host Borussia Dortmund on matchday 4 of the German Bundesliga. Both teams started quite well in the new season with two wins and one loss in three matches. Therefore, they have the same amount of points and are neighbours in the current Bundesliga table. Sebastian Hoeness...
SC Freiburg arrived in Dortmund looking to challenge Borussia Dortmund for their second win of their Bundesliga season so far. Meanwhile, Borussia Dortmund looked to rebound from a pair of defeats after losing to Bayern Munich in the DFL Supercup on Wednesday and Augsburg last Saturday. Luckily for Dortmund, they...
Achraf Hakimi is on the verge of moving from his current club Real Madrid to Inter Milan. The Moroccan loaned by BVB have already given the Italian top club his promise for a transfer this summer. According to information from Sky Italia, the transfer is around 40 million euros. Most...
This weekend hosted the final round of Bundesliga fixtures which saw Hoffenheim travel to the Signal Iduna Park to take on Borussia Dortmund. Going into the game, Hoffenheim were currently sitting in 7th place, and needed to win against Borussia Dortmund and hope that Vfl Wolfsburg lost in their home...
RB Leipzig welcomed Borussia Dortmund to an empty Red Bull Arena in what was an important game for the home side as they looked to secure a top-four finish in the Bundesliga. However, Julian Nagelsmann’s side were undone by a supreme performance by Dortmund, who have now secured 2nd place...
The use of half-spaces is not new, but they gained more prominence in the football vernacular during Pep Guardiola’s time as Barcelona’s head coach, where he frequently referred to using them. In this tactical analysis, I will provide a brief overview of the tactical theory on how half-spaces can be manipulated to advance the ball. We...
Within the last years, the rivalry between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich became the most important one in Germany since these two were clearly the two best sides in the Bundesliga. Furthermore, in the season 2012/13, these two teams met in the final of the UEFA Champions League and it...
On Saturday, Borussia Dortmund maintained their Bundesliga title fight with a 2-0 win away to Wolfsburg. It was a game of a few moments of quality. The xG scores of Wolfsburg’s 0.37 to Borussia Dortmund’s 0.57 paint a good picture, where there were only three shots on target the entire...
