Best of 2024
31 December 2024
It is hard to pick because I put a lot of thought into them, but if I had to pick, these are my top sixty favorite posts I wrote in 2024 in the Tactics Journal. Thank you all for reading, and Happy New Year!
- Declan Rice’s Position Dictates How Threatening Arsenal Are
- For the First Time
- What happens when Van Dijk marks Odegaard instead of Gomez
- The way Manchester City prepare for a tactical change
- Positive orientation when receiving the ball
- Porto’s cover shadow masterclass against Arsenal
- England’s simple solution
- Erling Haaland’s exponential dribbling improvement
- Possession without progression
- Chelsea’s cliques
- Arsenal reinvented the wheel
- Could Erling Haaland be doing more?
- A team versus individuals
- Bologna rotate to free Calafiori
- Manchester City’s rotations
- Manchester City’s staircase
- Arsenal’s devastating six-yard box corner kick routine
- Press play again
- You cannot sit, if you don’t have a chair
- Tonic immobility in Arsenal
- World-Class
- Positional Laggards
- Carlo with an RPG
- Germany is in the street again
- We need results
- England doesn’t use their spices
- To defend or defend with the ball
- Antagonists to Protagonists
- Spain shows why a pass forward is significant
- Rodri talks, we must listen
- Spain’s simple passes forward are refreshing
- Will the zonal attack become outdated?
- Be jealous of Arsenal signing Calafiori
- Bald with a beard, but not the same
- Bayern Munich pass horizontally against Tottenham, constantly opening play
- The buildup is the most important phase to me
- The mind of an innovator
- Dynamic Stretcher
- Fight or flight
- An intellectual challenge
- Be crazy
- Avoiding the spectacular
- Arsenal had imposter syndrome
- Black sheep
- Positionism and Relationism change the way we look at football
- Manchester City defend with the ball
- Defensive football delays the inevitable
- Football at a walking pace
- The lessons from chess players that want more spontaneity
- Brick by brick
- Red cards ruin games
- Why I talk about the Premier League
- The attack must not be performing well if we are losing
- Appropriation
- Structure versus the players
- Attacking uphill
- Expected disappointment
- The most dangerous pass in football
- Roll out the red carpet
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