Analysis
How rest defence shapes a team's vulnerability to counterattacks
The structure a team leaves behind the ball when it attacks — its rest defence — decides almost everything about how badly it can be hurt on the break.
Analysis
Match and season analysis combining video study with data: shape changes, pressing success, chance quality and where a result was actually decided.
Analysis
Why pressing traps fail against a single striker
Pressing traps are built to hunt the ball in packs, and a lone striker starves them of the numbers they need to close it down.