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How has Andoni Iraola transformed Bournemouth into challengers for the European places this season? Hint: it’s more than just pressing.
Jon Mackenzie explains 🧠
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ask anyone what the secret to bourma success is and they’ll probably say something about their intense pressing but is there another explanation since Pep Guardiola arrived in England many of his ideas about football have become commonplace one of these is that the best way to progress the ball down the field is to use the position of your players to create space which can then be exploited through one or two touch passing but andon Rola the Bournemouth coach has suggested there might be downsides to this approach in a recent interview he said I think when you play too positionally you sometimes lose the initiative from the players to just take their man on and attack the spaces if you watch Bournemouth you’ll see that their players often carry the ball in possession targeting spaces that open up immediately rather than waiting for teammates to move into them in fact no team has carried the ball through an opponent’s defensive line more than them this season and the beauty of this approach is that it pulls apart opponent’s defensive structures opening out even more space to exploit of course it’s a risky approach because creating chaos through ball carrying makes both teams more vulnerable but it’s one that’s clearly working well for Bournemouth this season
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Iraola is an elite coach, hope Bournemouth achieve european football this season
Peps been real quite since this dropped
this Bournemouth superteam truly terrifies me
pen merchants
With the team they had, it was only a matter of time before things improved. They just needed a talented coach and boom
This is really impressive.
One of Sir Alex’s best traits was to adapt to be ahead of the tactical times. Pep also started doing this but he is now too stubborn tactically, so it is a very elite trait.
However, my main worry is that the next tactical evolution may just be reverting back to passing heavy game plans as there is pretty much nowhere to evolve from here.
His play style is quite similar to fickball
Atletico should sign Iraola if they want to dominate La Liga again
The quote 'pep destroyed football' is just so wrong now, probably back then, they were a lot of copies, but now that managers are taking ideas from it, and with the funds now available the premier league is more competitive than ever. Pep may be too tacticly minded and sometimes kills creativity. But his impact on football is by far the best of any manager
Do a whole video dedicated to Iraola’s Bournemouth please 🙏🏽
BOURYMOUTH SOUND like a BEER 🍺
I bet John happily volunteered to do this Bournemouth analysis video xD Great stuff, very insightful!
Iraola is a brave manager, he knows his style and he makes it work, regardless of how the league is set up and how a lot of teams follow Pep’s way of playing. And it’s paying dividends now with how well they’re playing all across the pitch.
So his players are exceptional at dribbling and moving with the ball is why this works for them, interesting
Everyone said the same thing about Ange his first season in for Spurs… funny how the tables have turned, now the lot are calling for his demise.
Anti-Pep ball
Marcelo Bielsa taught Iraola well. His system does have its costs: you need your midfielders to do a lot running and it can struggle in possession. But you can't deny Iraola's results both in La Liga and now in the Prem.
Imagine what Iraola could do with prime Moussa Dembele
Ruben Amorim combined both the aspects in his Sporting team- holding possession, moving up through progressive passes in your half while carrying the ball in the final third to create chances. Yet to see this implemented at Man Utd.
Bournemouth's best player would eventually become a Newcastle United player🙃
watching this video thinking what Poch would have done if he was given more time at Chelsea.
Kepaaaaa🐐❤️
The real secret is Kluivert 😂
Thank god EPL has less Pep fangirls as coaches now
UTCIAD
Basically tell players to be players again is now a big deal
They got us next. It's going to be a very good match
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Andoni Iraola's tactics is more evolved than that of other managers. His tactics is the future of football.
I've been thinking about the fact that this has to be the next step in evolutionary thinking in the sport. How are you meant to beat low blocks you draw them out. When they figure out how to reduce space you figure out where the space ends up being. It's all about open spaces
I wouldn't be surprised if Manchester United snatched him up.
We've circled back round to football fr before peps influence, letting players use their skills on the ball to drive at opponents and be direct.
Its refreshing to see teams doing this again after so long of the same pass back n foruth between midfield and defence
everyone gets hyped when mid table teams suddenly plays very well, happened with Newcastle, brighton, brentford but they all eventually. become mid table again and people just forgot about that one good season they have — and then you realised they only played really well for a season. it'll gonna happen again with villa, nfo and most certainly Bournemouth. maybe they can get consistent success over the upcoming years but due to the way the club is being ran, it's not likely they'll get consistent successes when they start playing more in Europe — that is the cycle of a club that invests and play well for a season and realise that they don't have the money for the depth to play in Europe and inevitably for behind again.
every now and then someone breaks the cycle, other than city and Liverpool, we haven't really quite seen anyone break that.
I have watched bournemouth play this season and i fell in love with Dean Hujisen. Fingers crossed he comes to liverpool.YNWA!
It also simplifies the game: “see space, take space”
That idea was in England 30 years before Pep arrived. Its a basic tactic . one of many. Pep didn't introduce it.
It is not a secret anymore because you have analyze it
They arent Peps ideas though? They're Cryuffs?
Their owner has lent the club bucket loads of cash