Matchday four of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League is complete. Our tactical analysis shares the best formations, plays and tactics from Champions League week four. We will analyze Barcelona’s attacking tactics, the characteristics of the half-spaces, and the benefits of overloads in these areas. Additionally, we will examine Bayer Leverkusen’s central overload in...
The 2024/2025 UEFA Champions League season marks the continuation of the tournament's prestige, featuring 36 clubs from various European leagues. This year, the competition structure has evolved, creating more opportunities for teams to progress while adding a layer of complexity to the group stages, as we will see in this...
The rise in the financial strength of the top-five European leagues has led to a dominance of clubs from those particular divisions in European competitions. While you can argue that the rise in the quality of football played at the highest level has led to a ‘better product’, it has...
Hwang In-beom has left Olympiacos and signed for Red Star Belgrade (FK Crvena Zvezda) - xGOLD first suggested Hwang as an interesting deep-lying playmaker profile similar to Nicolo Barella back in January 2023 and we followed him. As a result, our TIPPSTER model suggests he is capable of making a...
Andrej Đurić moves from NK Domžale to Red Star Belgrade (FK Crvena Zvezda). xGOLD first identified Đurić as an interesting profile in September 2022, and we have scouted him several times since, believing he could have a medium impact for a Tier 4 club. Who is Andrej Djuric? Andrej Djuric is a young defender...
The effect and impact Miloš Milojević has had since taking over the Serbian giants Crvena Zvezda in August 2022 are undeniable. Last season it was Partizan who came second in the league with just two points behind Red Star. In this season the Red and Whites are repping all the...
In 1998, Dejan Stanković left Crvena Zvezda, the historic club at which he’d been playing since 1992 when he joined their youth academy, to embark on a playing career in Italy. Initially joining Lazio, Stanković won a Serie A title, two Italian Cups, two Italian Super Cups, the last ever...
The concept of compactness has become a constant in discussions about modern football tactics, particularly when it comes to defensive structures and out-of-possession blocks that many teams employ. Even though it is quite a commonly used word, and it is quite simple terminologically, compactness is way more complex in terms of the...
Red Star Belgrade is at the new beginning. After a lucrative few years under Vladan Milojević, this winter, they underwent a staff change and appointed club and Serbian football legend Dejan Stanković as their new manager. The switch in managerial positions was expected to bring some modifications in the style...
The last round of this season’s UEFA Champions League group stage brought us an "Orthodox brothers" duel between Olympiacos and Red Star Belgrade, whose fans are in an excellent and close relationship. Although the game was interwoven with the fandom note of cheering from the stands, it meant the world...
It was the fourth round of fixtures in the UEFA Champions League in the group stage. On Wednesday, Red Star Belgrade played against Tottenham Hotspur at the Rajko Mitić Stadium. Despite being the league leader with six points clear in the domestic competition, things did not go well for Red Star...
The UEFA Champions League is back, and it brought us some brilliant tactical matchups. In the first round of Group B, Bayern Munich welcomed Red Star Belgrade in a match that reminded football fans of the classic clashes between the two teams from the second half of the 20th century. Even though the Serbs are...
Red Star Belgrade has done it again – they’ve made their comeback into the UEFA Champions League after getting the better of Switzerland's Young Boys on aggregate in their playoff fixtures. The second match between them ended in a draw, just like the first one, but the Serbs advanced to the...
In the first leg match of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, playoffs round Young Boys welcomed Red Star Belgrade in the battle for group stage qualification. The home team was in a better place before the game since they were seen as favourites since they started competing with the "elite"...
In the third qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League, Red Star Belgrade welcomed Copenhagen in the first leg of their matchup for the playoffs. The home team came in as slight favourites since they were playing on their own turf and were the better team in a bigger part of...
In the first qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League FK Sūduva welcomed Red Star Belgrade in the first leg of the two-fixtured duel. Two teams have met in the second round of the competition in the last year’s campaign, so the Tuesday night’s duel was a chance for the...
Stadio San Paolo was the venue for a Group C clash seen as a must-win for both teams. A loss for either Napoli or Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) would all but kill their hopes of progressing into the knockout rounds of UEFA’s premier club competition, regardless of what was...
