5 NEW Tactical Trends To Expect This Season



The new Premier League season is just around the corner, and with clubs throughout the league making big signings to improve …

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  1. I think it’ll be a lot more man to man pressing as we’ve seen. Teams are no longer leaving a plus one advantage at the back. The top teams have always pressed with two up top but the real question is how many pivots will play whether it ends up being a single or double pivot in possession.

  2. Tonight's 2025/2026 English Premier League’s opening fixture between Liverpool and Bournemouth echoes a darker legacy: Liverpool’s pivotal role in the transatlantic slave trade.

    In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Liverpool became Britain’s foremost slave-trading port—dispatching approximately 80 % of the nation’s slaving voyages and transporting around 1.5 million Africans into bondage.

    Vessels such as the Iris, which between 1783 and 1800 carried hundreds of captives from West Africa to the Caribbean, and the massive Parr, launched in 1797 to hold up to 700 enslaved people, are chilling reminders of the city’s maritime complicity.

    The Amacree (1788), known for bombarding Calabar to force down slave prices, further underscores the systemic brutality of Liverpool’s maritime trade.

    As fans flood Anfield to witness a match defined by athletic confrontation, they are, perhaps unknowingly, stepping into a space steeped in legacies of commodification and violence.

    The spectacle of sport, with its flags, chants, and packed stands, can become a ghostly echo of a port that once trafficked human lives.

    This match, then, stands as a reminder that beneath modern triumphs lies a history that must not be forgotten.

  3. Big up homie! I think you disrespected Bournemouth the most 😳 and overrated Ipswich the most 😅. I need to see Tottenham top 5 COYS!

  4. how can you look at this arsenal team and think theyre going to do well? Big fatty up top, big fatty at LCM, big fatty at LB, love island contestant at RB, anorexic at RCM. Its fucking ass

  5. ‪@JamesLawrenceAllcott Brilliant analysis. I don't see why Liverpool cannot attack with a 4-2-2-2 formation, like City does, if they sign Isak.

  6. 3:37 Pep’s tactics are probably an ingenious way of flipping that old school nock it to the big man to flick it down. Instead it’s nock it long to attract defenders to Haaland and free up Marmoush.

    It’s like a complete flip on the Crouchy/Defoe combo and it’s genius.

  7. From the pre-season clash with Athletic Bilbao, it looks like Arteta is leaning towards a double pivot of Zubimendy and Declan Rice, rather than using Zubimendy as a lone six especially against teams that sit in a low block. That said, I can still see Rice pushing into his more advanced role from last season when we face sides that don’t park the bus, giving him space to drive forward.

  8. 6:06 – but another thing we've seen in pre-season (and at the CWC for city) is that both Frimpong and Ait-Nouri will also be occasionally drifting into the half-spaces and interchanging with those wingers in there between the wide and half-space areas

  9. Our main issue last season was relying on martinelli to hold width and replicate saka's performance. That left side has to have some rotation with declan out wide or maybe viktor and calafiori wide with gabi on the inside. Martinelli can decently link play and is a better runner centrally from what I've seen.

  10. 4213 or 4231 this formation is popular the teams who plays this style are:-
    Barca Bayern Chelsea psg Liverpool I think this will allow you to press higher without the ball and teams I mentioned are top 5 teams in the world Right now

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