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TFA Today: Gilardino’s Genoa and how they’ve gone up, Rydstrom’s relationist tactics in Malmo, tactical monotony in Malaga and more…

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Malmö FF have made a strong start to the Swedish season and Henrik Rydstrom has laid down some relationist principles – Sakhu Mpofo with the analysis

Malaga Club de Futbol S.A.D. have had “one of those” decades – 10 years ago they were riding high and this season has been one of chaos, monotony, potential relegation to the 3rd Tier of Spain and, finally, some late stability – Beth Limb breaks down their challenging campaign from the tactical perspective

Selim Ben Hmida looks at what Orlando Pride need to improve to raise their National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) level

ICYMI: It’s awesome for us to see our Head of Women’s Football Analysis David Astill nominated for Writer of the Year in the On Her Side Awards. Please vote for him – the content he creates, not just for TFA, is always of the highest standard and we genuinely don’t think there are many doing better tactical analysis/scouting articles in the women’s game

Also, we launched the May TFA Magazine last week – packed full of articles, data viz and insights and read by many, many industry leaders in football. To get your copy, all you need is a monthly or annual TFA membership – and for that membership you get a second monthly magazine, the entire magazine back catalogue from Nov 2018 (85 magazines!), 40+ new articles per month and the article archive of 8000+, so go and get the latest magazine now!

Steffen Baumgart’s Koln ended Bayer Leverkusen’s impressive unbeaten run with a 2-1 victory at the BayArena – read our tactical analysis of the German side’s tactics under Baumgart

Claudio Ranieri’s Cagliari moved up to 4th in Serie B with a 5-0 thrashing of Perugia – we recently analysed the Tinkerman’s tactics with the Sardinian club

Frida Maanum sealed a 1-0 win for Arsenal with the only goal of the game – read our scout report of her role in Jonas Eidevall’s tactics

Fortaleza made it three wins out of three in the Copa Sudamericana with a comfortable 6-1 win – read our tactical analysis of Juan Pablo Vojvoda’s tactics with the Brazilian club

Mike Maignan registered an assist for AC Milan in a huge 2-0 win over Lazio for their top-four hopes – a few seasons ago, we predicted that the Frenchman would be one of the best goalkeepers in the world

Will Still’s Reims dealt a massive blow to Lille’s European hopes with a huge 1-0 win at the weekend – read our tactical analysis of the 30-year-old’s tactics with the French club

Benoit Badiashile scored his first goal for Chelsea at the weekend to help Frank Lampard to his first victory as Chelsea interim – read our scout report of the talented centre-back

Genoa secured promotion to Serie A at the first time of asking following a 2-1 home win against Ascoli at the weekend – we recently analysed Alberto Gilardino’s promotion-earning tactics

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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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