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Good morning analysis fans and welcome to the #MondayMorning newsletter – full of analysis, scouting and tactics. Fill up on your football knowledge – follow the Total Football Analysis page and be part of the squad that want more than just a match report.

Have you seen our end-of-year 50% off sale? You can get an annual all-access membership for just €29.99 (usually €59.99!) until NYD – just use the discount code TFA100.

Last week, we launched a very special 100th TFA magazine.

Coach Kevin Martin is back with his fortnightly column, this week looking at how you can teach the movements of Luis Suarez on the training pitch.

ASEC Mimosas have a long and storied pedigree of producing top talent – in her latest search into Academy football, Beth Limb scouts some of their latest exciting players.

Anantaajith Raghuraman analyses FC Twente’s Costa Rican star, Manfred Ugalde.

Brandon Liss explains how Thorsten Fink has turned Aboubakary Koita into a key component at Sint-Truiden.

Head of Set-Pieces Marcel Seifeddine looks at how to sustain pressure from attacking corners.

Today’s TFA Scouted report looks at Javi Guerra of Valencia, linked to Man United. Clubs can get access to our TFA Scouted database of nearly 10,000 players with full scout reports + much more for a small monthly fee.

From the archives, we suggest the following;

Jonathan David’s last-minute goal denied PSG all three points versus Lille in Ligue 1 yesterday — we analysed the Canadian attacker’s role in Les Dogues’ tactics last season.

Nico Williams delivered a stellar performance to help Athletic Club defeat Atlético Madrid on Saturday; our 2022 scout report details why the 21 y/o winger’s stock has skyrocketed over the last year and a bit.

Jeremie Frimpong has got seven goals and nine assists in all competitions this season for Bayer Leverkusen. We analysed why the 23 y/o has got big clubs circling him in a player analysis piece.

Germany boss Julian Nagelsmann has declared that his ‘Kai Havertz at left-back’ experiment is finished despite his satisfaction with the 24 y/o’s performances in the two games he was deployed there. Revisit our article analysing how and why the Arsenal man was utilised during the November int’l break.

And that’s it for today – we’ll be back tomorrow with more pieces old and new about everything analysis in the football world.

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Chris Beaumont

Former Football Manager nut and lover of all things data and stats in scouting - founder of Total Football Analysis and Director of Scouting & Analysis Operations for Velez CF

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