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The worlds eyes will be on the UEFA Champions League Final between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan on Saturday, May 31st.
Both teams have come a long way and faced many challenges to reach the Munich Football Arena.
Inter were strong from the first stage, finishing fourth with 19 points, which is equal to Barcelona and Arsenal, and just two points behind leaders Liverpool.
After that, Simone Inzaghis side knocked out Feyenoord, Bayern Munich, and then Barcelona.
On the other hand, PSG suffered more in the initial stage, ending up 15th with 13 points, which led them to the play-offs.
The Luis Enrique-led side advanced past Brest in the play-offs and then knocked out Liverpool, Aston Villa, and Arsenal.
Small details could be crucial in this match, so in this Champions League Final tactics preview, we will examine each sides tactics in set pieces.
This tactical analysis is a set-piece analysis of each sides most important tactics in set plays, which we predict will be crucial in this Champions League Final.
We discuss how these tactics will impact the opposing sides defensive strategy.
Inter Milan Attacking Set Pieces
Starting with their impressive performance against Barcelona, we will examine how Inter countered a man-marking defensive system.
As shown below, they target the far post and the middle area behind the two zonal defenders (red), and they prefer to use an out-swinging cross to keep the goalkeeper at a distance.
Three players (white arrows) make decoy runs to take the attention of the two zonal defenders, but how do they free the targeted player from marking?
Here, their trick appears, which is to ask most of the attackers to start far in a group next to or behind one another (pack or stack), as shown below.
This allows the targeted p
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