Stories By Neel Shelat
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Liverpool
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: How Manchester United paid the ultimate price for their abject defending against Liverpool
It’s no secret that Manchester United’s defence has been unstable at best this season. They have one clean sheet to their...
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Arsenal
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: Kieran Tierney’s absence against Aston Villa might have been a blessing in disguise for Arsenal
Injuries are typically never a good thing for a football club, especially when one of your key players is sidelined. In...
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Champions League
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: How Phil Foden pulled the strings for Manchester City against Club Brugge as a false nine
The term ‘false nine’ is often used too loosely these days to describe any non-striker operating in a central role in...
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Liverpool
/ 3 years agoData Analysis: Mohamed Salah is the best player in the English Premier League right now
Liverpool fans famously sing about Mohamed Salah running down the wing, but their Egyptian King quite obviously also turns up in...
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Liverpool
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: Why Liverpool vs Manchester City was one of the best games of football you will ever see
Merseyside and Manchester; red and sky blue; Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola; Liverpool and Manchester City. The two chief standard-setters of...
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Champions League
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: Why set-pieces still remain a big issue for Manchester United
We’re hardly two months in, but this season already has been quite the rollercoaster for Manchester United. A 5-1 thumping of...
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Champions League
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: Four months on, Manchester United still have the same problems against Villarreal
The Champions League continues to provide clashes with massive levels of The Narrative™, and among those was the Group F Matchday...
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Champions League
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: Paris Saint-Germain’s front-three are exceptionally talented – but also a huge defensive liability
Manchester City’s tough run of fixtures continued in France after their success at Chelsea over the weekend, as they faced Ligue...
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Chelsea
/ 3 years agoTactical Analysis: How Manchester City finally figured out a way to press Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea
119 days after the Champions League final in Portugal, Chelsea and Manchester City were back at it on a football pitch....
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England
/ 4 years agoPerformance Analysis: Trent Alexander-Arnold’s midfield experiment for England against Andorra
There can be no doubts about the fact that last season did not exactly go to plan for Trent Alexander-Arnold, but...