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Chelsea's Attacking Cohesion Under Enzo Maresca & Robert Klauß's Red Bull Tactics At Rapid Wien
Today, we analyse how Enzo Maresca has brought attacking cohesion to Chelsea in the early days of his tenure with the Premier League giants and take a look at how Robert Klauß has successfully brought Red Bull tactics to Rapid Wien in Austria!


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Today’s TFA Posts ⚽
Chelsea have faced substantial criticism over the past two seasons for purchasing numerous young talents at high prices — especially in their attack, which now consists of nine players who could comfortably start at other clubs in Europe’s top-five leagues.
Speculation has frequently swirled around how Chelsea would fit all these players into a cohesive system and keep them content, especially after previous managers like Graham Potter and Mauricio Pochettino struggled to do so.
Today, Kurosh Moghtader provides an analysis of how Enzo Maresca has been integrating all his attackers into a playing style that has enabled them to score goals easily in the Premier League this season!
Austrian football was different 20 years ago, when Rapid and Austria Wien, the two biggest clubs in the country’s capital, had been consistently battling it out to win the Austrian Bundesliga title for years.
Cue 2005, Red Bull, the energy drink manufacturer, decided to buy a football club in Salzburg and invest heavily in infrastructure as well as the team itself; German Ralf Rangnick was hired to develop a Red Bull style of play, which ended up being centred around counterpressing and rapid, hostile attacks.
Many players left Rapid Wien to strive for the German Bundesliga or even Red Bull Salzburg itself, as Marcel Sabitzer did, resulting in a decline in Rapid Wien’s quality.
Now, Rapid are on the rise and one key factor behind their success in 2024/25 is head coach Robert Klauß — a Red Bull coach through and through.
Jonas Bartsch analyses how Klauß is bringing Red Bull tactics to Rapid Wien in 2024/25 via his latest tactical analysis.
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Inter host Juventus in Derby d’Italia tomorrow in Serie A — read about how Thiago Motta has solidified Juve’s defence since taking charge of the Turin club this season ahead of Italy’s showcase fixture!
In Ligue 1, Nice host Monaco tomorrow in Derby de la Côte d’Azur — discover how Adi Hütter’s blind side pressing tactics have been key to Monaco’s early-season success this term.
PSG travel to Marseille for France’s ‘Le Classique’ fixture tomorrow — learn about how Luis Enrique’s Parisian attack has evolved this season post-Mbappé via our tactical analysis.
Ahead of that same ‘Le Classique’ fixture, why not read about Roberto De Zerbi’s shadow pressing and how to coach a defensive system in that ilk via our tactical theory piece?