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Barcelona lost their UEFA Champions League clash with PSG at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium after a challenging match that witnessed an excellent level of football from both sides, but with more realism, concretisation, and consistency from PSG, who were more determined to win throughout the 90 minutes.

Barcelona failed to secure a home win despite scoring first and being very dangerous in the first half.

Nevertheless, their second-half performance was not convincing at all since they failed to threaten PSG’s goal consistently and were unable to create a serious threat apart from a few actions that led to free-kicks and were intelligently stopped by PSG’s defence, with the exception of a goalscoring chance at the 63rd minute.

Barcelona’s negative second-half performance punished them especially because they were unable to defend well against PSG’s organised and dangerous attacks, and were unable to attack in a dangerous way.

Barcelona’s attacking issues in the second half are exacerbated by their inability to consistently provide key passes to the box and the absence of a reliable, dangerous striker who can finish accurately even when receiving passes in complicated situations.

Even with the subbing of an experienced striker like Robert Lewandowski, things did not change for Barcelona, given that he did not receive many passes and could not threaten PSG’s defence.

Furthermore, Barcelona were punished for continuing their use of a very high defensive block without considering the consequences against teams with very quick and dangerous players like PSG.

On the other hand, we can only congratulate Luis Enrique for the way he adapted to his team’s numerous important absences, especially from an attacking perspective.

With Ousmane Dembélé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, João Neves, Désiré Doué, and Marquinhos unavailable for the match, Enrique succeeded in replacing them with quality players without impacting the PSG style of play or identity, even though the quality of the players is certainly not as good as those mentioned.

It is also true that Barcelona had some unavailable players for this match, but these absences were not too impactful and did not oblige Hansi Flick to make considerable changes within his starting XI.

In this tactical analysis of the match between Barcelona and PSG, the objective of the article will be to assess Barcelona’s performance and focus on the defensive negatives of their performance, while looking at PSG’s decisive attacking solutions.

For the third time this season, Manchester City conceded a late goal to give away three points.

Pep Guardiola’s side was in complete control on Wednesday, but a late penalty from Eric Dier gave AS Monaco a much-needed point at home.

Manchester City have certainly been an interesting team this season.

We’ve seen dominant matches by controlling the ball, but also playing more direct against certain types of opponents.

The Cityzens had been in better form coming into the match, winning four of their last five matches.

Their improvements came defensively, as they conceded only twice.

Monaco came into the match on the back of a pretty difficult run of form, losing 4-1 to Club Brugge in their opening UEFA Champions League match and 3-1 to newly promoted Lorient in Ligue 1.

It was a fascinating tactical battle between Adi Hütter and Pep Guardiola, in which Manchester City dominated possession and played inside the Monaco final third for most of the match.

In this article, we’ll take a look at how Manchester City created chances through their central overload, how they limited Monaco from open play, and how Adi Hütter’s low block frustrated Manchester City.

Bodø/Glimt is a place Tottenham Hotspur will remember for a long time in their club’s history.

On the way to beating Manchester United in the UEFA Europa League Final last season, Spurs faced Bodø/Glimt away in the semi-final in a tough tie but came out on top, with memorable images of the players dancing in the crowd in the cold emerging after the full-time whistle.

As it happened, the Europa League win and breaking the 17-year-long barren spell of a trophy were not enough to keep Ange Postecoglou in the job.

In the summer, the reins were passed to promising Brentford manager Thomas Frank.

The results thus far have been encouraging, with Spurs sitting fourth in the table and conceding just four goals.

Frank seems to have brought many of the Brentford tactics with him to Spurs, which is slightly surprising for an elite team.

Tottenham were a team under Postecoglou that were hell-bent on an attack-first, possession-based brand of football; what we’re seeing with Frank is totally different.

Bodø/Glimt in their own stadium in the Arctic Circle is a special, hostile place to play because of the weather and the uniqueness of the pitch.

Though the match was drawn 2-2, it gave us more of an inclination into some worries for Tottenham fans and more of an admiration for the Norwegian side.

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