Playing City

[Nineteenx]

Teams try lots of different ways to try and stop them rather than focusing on how to beat them and expose them, they just need to put and keep an attacking midfielder or false 9 on Rodri or Fernandhino all game as the best starting point to stop them playing their little triangle between their 2 CBs and No6 they do an awful lot of

That little triangle is a huge part of City's entire set up as is their No6 always being open to go back to, it's where they get their rhythm from and if you stop it you disrupt them and stop their rhythm and if you set up right and can release forwards in behind either full back, which is always on, you can very quickly have a 3v2 with the player on their No6 breaking beyond them

The thought process of most teams of letting them have it in their own half just knocking it about between their 2 CBs and No6 that it's ok as they can't hurt them from there is completely flawed, all the while they are letting them do that so easily, all their players ahead of the ball are making little runs to be found and in conjunction with one another to try and get set to put a combination of quick passes together when either of their CBs of their No6 plays the ball to one of the runners and they often score goals through doing all that

Just stop the triangle and the ball back to No6 and see

[jozza800]

Teams try lots of different ways to try and stop them rather than focusing on how to beat them and expose them, they just need to put and keep an attacking midfielder or false 9 on Rodri or Fernandhino all game as the best starting point to stop them playing their little triangle between their 2 CBs and No6 they do an awful lot of

That little triangle is a huge part of City's entire set up as is their No6 always being open to go back to, it's where they get their rhythm from and if you stop it you disrupt them and stop their rhythm and if you set up right and can release forwards in behind either full back, which is always on, you can very quickly have a 3v2 with the player on their No6 breaking beyond them

The thought process of most teams of letting them have it in their own half just knocking it about between their 2 CBs and No6 that it's ok as they can't hurt them from there is completely flawed, all the while they are letting them do that so easily, all their players ahead of the ball are making little runs to be found and in conjunction with one another to try and get set to put a combination of quick passes together when either of their CBs of their No6 plays the ball to one of the runners and they often score goals through doing all that

Just stop the triangle and the ball back to No6 and see

Used to think the same about Mourinho's Chelsea. Someone just needed to sit on Makelele for 90 minutes. He was the out ball everytime.

[Nineteenx]

Used to think the same about Mourinho's Chelsea. Someone just needed to sit on Makelele for 90 minutes. He was the out ball everytime.

It is the starting point for everything for City, you only need to look at the amount of passes the players in that triangle rack up, way more than all their other players, it's fundamental to how they play, pass pass pass between that back 3 while all the others are making coordinated runs and then they play it when it's the right ball and they're set, for me if you stop them doing that and make them play differently, you're going to disrupt their rhythm and everything they do