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Tactical Analysis: Sassuolo’s Flexible Build-Up Strategies
For tacticians worldwide, Sassuolo and intriguing build-up dynamics have become synonymous in recent seasons after the eye-catching...
Sep 14, 20219 min read
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Tactical preview of Maurizio Sarri’s Lazio
A few days ago, I penned a tactical preview of what former Lazio coach Simone Inzaghi’s tactics might look like at Inter and how his...
Jun 13, 202113 min read
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Tactical preview of Simone Inzaghi’s Inter
Last week, Simone Inzaghi was officially confirmed as Internazionale’s new head coach, replacing the Scudetto-winning Antonio Conte at...
Jun 9, 20217 min read
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Episode 3 – Andrea Pirlo’s Juventus: Tactics and Sensible Signings
In the third episode of Up, Back, Through: A Soccer Coaching Podcast, Eddy and David talk about Andrea Pirlo’s Juventus, their tactical...
Apr 11, 20211 min read
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Rejuvenating Juventus: Potential tactical tweaks and sensible signings
It’s never as bad as it seems; it’s never as good as it seems. Juventus are certainly hoping for the former since Andrea Pirlo has had a...
Apr 8, 202114 min read
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Meet Cristian Romero – Your New Favourite Centre-Back
If you’re not an avid follower of Italian football, you might only have a vague notion of who Cristian Romero is. However, if you’ve...
Apr 4, 20215 min read
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Analysing the tactics of Vincenzo Italiano’s Spezia
Spezia have caught the eyes of tacticians all season and made it into the mainstream on Saturday night when they dominated Serie A...
Feb 14, 20219 min read
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Sassuolo, De Zerbi and Trusting Talent
Four games into the season, Sassuolo sit unbeaten in 2nd in the Serie A table, having outscored all teams in the division bar Atalanta....
Oct 23, 20205 min read
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Atalanta, Bergamo and the dream of the Scudetto
The Champions League group stage draw hadn’t even finished when neutral fans across the continent began to share their excitement with...
Oct 10, 20209 min read
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Serie A transfers – a look at every clubs key signing
The Serie A transfer window, the mercato, closed last Friday ahead of the new season kicking off on the Saturday. As always, each club...
Aug 22, 20189 min read
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Sergej Milinkovic-Savic – Serie A’s next €100 million player
If you’re a football fan on Twitter these days, you are sure to have seen something about Sergej Milinkovic-Savic. Maybe it was just...
Mar 2, 20185 min read
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Massimiliano Allegri – a complete coach
Massimiliano Allegri has had a fantastic coaching career to date. Since his first appointment at Aglianese in Italy’s Serie C2 in 2004,...
Dec 19, 201710 min read
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Who should become the new Italy coach?
Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years and coach Gian Piero Ventura paid the price when he was sacked...
Nov 15, 20175 min read
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Marco Giampaolo oversees stunning start with Sampdoria
Last season was a very good first year in charge for Marco Giampaolo at Sampdoria. After joining from Empoli in the summer of 2016, he...
Sep 25, 20174 min read
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AC Milan’s problem with Leonardo Bonucci
AC Milan’s spending this summer caused their fans huge excitement and anticipation ahead of the start of the new campaign. The headline...
Sep 13, 20174 min read
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Marco Borriello – Italy’s ultimate journeyman striker
Italian football have seen it’s fair share of journeymen strikers who move from various clubs, delivering at some while underwhelming at...
Aug 31, 20176 min read
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Paulo Dybala leads Juventus comeback with superb individual display
Serie A is up and running with two eventful rounds already played in Italy. Juventus, champions six times in a row, has hit the ground...
Aug 28, 20173 min read
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Mercato analysis: Bernardeschi, Biglia and Valero
The Serie A mercato has really kicked into gear in the last few weeks with AC Milan’s ambitious spending, headlined by the arrival of...
Jul 25, 20176 min read
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Remembering “Pazzano” – the deadly duo who reunite in Verona
Between 2008 and 2010, Italian football fans were spellbound by two men’s combination play in the shirts of Sampdoria as the deadly...
Jul 12, 20178 min read
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Juventus clinch sixth straight Scudetto with dominant win over Crotone
Massimiliano Allegri’s incredible reign as Juventus coach reached further heights yesterday as the Bianconeri clinched their sixth...
May 22, 20173 min read
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