Welcome back to the analysis, show that an in-depth. Look at
Man City against Liverpool. Now, we're going to turn our
attention to Chelsea. We were very, very fortunate to have
Glenn hoddle have access to the carbon trading center at
Chelsea and have a tactical master class with Thomas to
Cool,
Thomas. Good to see you. Nice to meet ya.
There is a new man
demanding that they deliver,
so you come and arrive at the bridge and it sounds I covered
the game. So, your first game and you go straight into
the shape, the shape that I love myself because I
loved it. When I was amazed you play,
well, wouldn't know what I
wish I could have played in that system. One of these to
one of them to
I never did. We always played 14. Yeah,
strict, you know which two straight
that was our problem.
And that is why with England. And when I came to Chelsea,
I tried to do this, didn't quite have the players,
but this is the
system that I loved. So why my question was, you went straight
into the threat in the wing-backs?
Why?
Because we had the players yelling, like sickly. Yeah,
other way around. Yeah, I believed we had the players and
I didn't had too much time to watch too many games. Chelsea.
Because I was like, done in course,
2 and a half days or something like call and negotiation of.
Let's go. Yeah, so we knew they played it before with Antonio
Conte. Yeah, so there were several reasons and then we
knew, okay. We had
us be our captain, and I wanted to have the captain on
the pitch,
and we knew he played this role big three with Antonio Conte.
Yeah, and then we went through the team that double 60 from
their recent. Like
we also do a five because it fits you.
Very good to the opponents to defend,
my are coming away from that game because I think it was
Neil Neil but you dominated the game. Yeah, I know and, and
coming away from the game. I was I was thinking, I wonder if
he stays because Frank tried it a few times. It's a wonder
if they stay with you instead too late or
they change. It was just for this game. Yeah, because we said
we wanted to give very quick easy messages and I said like
okay, let's be always three against two here. Yeah, they
don't catch us here. And if we do a mistake, we still have
three years. It's to superiority
and they don't have the advantage on the wing backs on.
There we go. So you match so we but we did so good and the game
was not so enjoyable to watch but from from the sidelines
there were such good behavior within the structure. You saw them
that I saw it. Like, actually in the next day. We said, like
in the in the meeting. This is like this. We can stay with it.
Yeah, and then whom do we play next to the next match was
Burnley 442.
And it fitted again. Do
it again. 3, those who subscribe Like okay the system
when you play against 442,
it's difficult to play for the Forefront. Well again, slows
the like I used to like plan against it. The only problem
was the full-backs you have to do is
obviously when you've got the two up, but you've got
the little inside, fold the key
for me. What do you see this guy as the key you've got?
He's the key of that back 3T absolute last silver is,
I was going to say
it's made for him like
his kind of league with his age is, you know, Before,
I don't think he,
I don't think he'd want to be coming out here.
He doesn't. Uh, but it doesn't have to be
lucky enough that I coached him in Paris. He was my captain in
Paris, and he has that kind of behavior
in a bag. For he does not like to come out
to come out and cover. He stays in protects ago. This is very
noisy. Now, he does not know, he doesn't need to but for me
and this is why I played a three at the back
was with the bull.
My main thing is with the ball to give you an opponent's,
the major problem.
He gives you I'm in Christianson. Does it? Okay.
There's other players in the Cody. Does it? Okay. Yeah, for
Walt but this man here,
he just seems to pick the past that hurts. You
as the opponent. He will pick a pastor, your pocket players
here. You number Ten's through the you know, and then he's got
the diagonal. This is the player for me that
and when tiago's playing,
when I'm when I'm covering Chelsea, and I'm dumping ice
place.
Just going to the wing backs, Thomas. Yeah,
there's times obviously when you have to go into the five
and we've just kept to a little clip here where I think this is
against Norwich where the Press is still on, but the fire
there. And we're looking at research James,
how the wing backs are so important, that development of
our, when he goes,
That's a goes as beautiful girls as full speed
and he threw the line. Yeah. It's needed to be did because
they had for Strikers. I put The white men up against you
and they force you back to a five. Yeah,
and that's that's the slight problem.
Here again. We just see the importance of the wing backs
getting forward the James and chill. Well, as this time on
the other side, but their level, they're at their our
level in the last third. Is that what you encourage them to
be? Yes. In the same
position. Whereas maybe back.
They might be a little bit slightly different when
the balls deeper, but as you get forward, every time I see
Chelsea,
the opposite Wing back is always in sync
with the other side.
I'd like to sing in the tech, the opposite Wing back. On
the other side, has placed a huge, huge, huge Rock, but there's
always
the same height all the time. You know, it can be like we had
a ball, is they can be deeper and help because they are
needed to help and have the like, the overload on the side.
You have to have a combination blade, but on the other side on
the diagonals, which he needs to arrive, and it's sometimes
also
and can even be in half filled. Yeah, and that's, I think what
I used to say up until they're sometimes, the opposite needs
to
If you lose it, you might have to get on the cover of the Lord
can't be too early.
So it's as you progress through the pitch. I swear. I think
Chelsea whoever is as complex. Sometimes it's also necessary
that you come in, even hear ya brain. They bleached here that
you don't get isolate. You don't isolate yourself because
the distance can be quite long.
Yeah, so you don't want thing. I'd like to ask you, which
I wasn't planning to ask you, but we're talking about wing-backs
this year. Slight. Is there a slight difference sometimes
wear?
These are coming inside. Yeah, sometimes and as for the next
does it more than
exactly. Yeah, that's
right. It's late. You should take care about each other have
each other. When like when he's pinning players here. He can be
in goings. I am being
which is another child.
So, I believe we need them to 26. First of all, the winner
short connection to the back three this year would have like
to have like the for the build-up, the short connections
to go from build up to 2
to the attacking phase
and then the old 5 need to be high up to everyone to to to
close all the nurses, Beauty against the five attacking
players that you end up having. Yeah,
because these two are balanced enough.
Yes, you definitely.
And also these come out as well
as clean. That's what you call so many problems for people
when I see them. These outside centre-backs can go. I mean
rudika. Yeah,
you can just see here that the five attacking players there
in this case against Newcastle. Yeah, and you've got your to
hold in players.
That's just what we've set up there on the board.
And that's the problem that you get an overload in the end
is it alonso's gone right into the pen?
Mt area. So your vendor and look at the opposite Wing back
is in the Box, you've got great day need to be in the box and
they need to have also the freedom, you know, they need to
have. In the end. The five players
need to have the freedom
to find their positions and to,
to adapt to what the opponent's offers to us. So they need,
they don't think about in this moment. They only should think
about scoring go, and not about like covering against
the Contour Tech. They've got the East
and there's these two have to be as high
up the pitch as So the balance is perfect,
not always always
in balance and they have to put in the
effort when we are at. So we never asked in these to go
may be occasions, but
maybe yes, can you fake a
I mean, Liverpool and Manchester City and got this,
they don't play with the number 9
and you have now with have it's going up there. Now. I think,
how do you see have as a to see him as a 9:00, 9:30 or
a rotating? No nine.
It's in. I'm still not sure. Yeah.
I see a kind of a bit of
Dennis Bergkamp.
Robin Van Persie, Berbatov.
And of flour player, yeah,
this is a half position. Yeah, I think because he has good
runs, but he is also free from feels free from the nine
and and and creates overloads to one side and he arrives. And
then
going out here is, yes, he is and here, yes, and then arrived
in the boys and Advantage. But yeah, as a good timing for,
I think what we do,
we say, that's how he played
for liver cusan,
right? When I saw him play there. I thought he was
Right ahead session. Yeah,
he played many games top winning a scoring them go. And
I was like, when I watched him and live, a cousin did not know
that I once will Coach him, but
when I was in Paris and we watched, of course, Leverkusen,
because they had an interesting Squat, and especially also for
him and they made him play as a nine. Yeah,
was a very interesting and was, like I said, I remember when
I watched like, I think Cup Final or something against Bayern
with my stuff and said, like, it's could be a good role for.
Yeah. Let's see.
He's come, he's come on.
Now he's obviously yes for whatever reasons, we won't go
down that road. But here is there again is an assister.
Now, he's beginning to finish. I mean there's Mountain who
I think has been Sensational
now for you as well.
But for me, it looks like a
is almost like a Target man. You can play him as a list of
a Target but he's actually but like you see he's used to play
from the half-filled which makes him very fluid fluid and
gives a certain Edge. And I mean like Liverpool and City
are
Are The Benchmark and they are setting the the standards over
the last year's and and it's like you say, they don't have a
real reference. Number 9, I'm front. And so
it is like, you can only play that system for me when you
have the ball when, you know, in the last third
that you're going to have so much of the ball there. No one
needs to be a focal point. If you haven't got that, maybe you
can't play that. You need that little Focus possibly, but
I think at the moment this guy,
Everts is doing both jobs for young years. Really is very,
very good. Fantastic. So
the love the system, love watching you play and
thanks. I've like, it's a good. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Great to see you. Thanks, Sam.