Once upon a time, not so very long ago, football was a game in which two teams battled for the ball and, when they had it, tried to score a goal. Teams had different ways of doing that. They used strength and they used pace and they used skill. They tried different shapes. They tried to win the ball back in different parts of the pitch. The ball could be capricious and hard to tame, but pretty much everybody agreed that it was safer not to let your opponent have too much of it.
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Written by Jonathan Wilson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/14/premier-league-2018-19-tactical-review-press-and-possess under the title “Premier League 2018-19 review: what we learned tactically from the season | Jonathan Wilson”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
