While Arteta was listening to Pep Guardiola intently at Manchester City, another gentleman was watching.
This man was former Man City captain Vincent Kompany.
He explained before in the Sky Sports interview: I learnt the most from Pep for sure”.
The 36-year-old, after his stint at Anderlecht, is now leading EFL Championship with Burnley and is on the brink of promotion to the Premier League, achieving the highest winning percentage in The Clarets history, with 64%.
Burnley have switched completely from the style of play of Sean Dyche to a totally different one with Kompany where they attempt to play a modern possession-based style of football.
This Vincent Kompany tactical analysis, in the form of a team scout report, dives into Kompany’s positional play fundamentals and tactics with Burnley, as the former Manchester City man moves on to lead Bayern Munich.
Vincent Kompany Positional Attack
In a new era at Burnley, Vincent Kompany style of play usually deviates between 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 and 4-1-4-1 shapes but under the same positional principles.
The fundamental idea within his approach is to have players occupy offensive zones while they look to position themselves between the opponents in the defensive block in both horizontal and vertical lanes, as well as both inside and outside of the opponents block.
Burnley under the Belgian are more like Arsenal than Man City in the tempo aspect where the team wants to have a fluid system and search for speed in reaching the final third at a certain moment and operates the Y-axis more a little than the X-axis.
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