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Andoni Iraola’s Suffocating Press - Tactical Analysis

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As the tactical game evolves at a rapid pace, more and more money is spent on teams of analysts, data scientists, and research departments to get ahead in a game of often small margins.

Whilst murmurs of football becoming more ‘boring’ have grown over the last few years, I believe this can be boiled down to the fact that out-of-possession ideas and coaches‘ abilities to implement them have improved.

Take, for instance, the Premier League: it never feels as though any ‘big’ team takes any match in their league for granted.

If you are not at the races, the league will find you out, and teams will not hesitate to take points off you.

The reason why slipping up can happen so often is that teams can adopt a low block and use fast players on the counter to cause problems, whilst prioritising a compact block which cuts off space in the centre of the pitch.

Bar Arsenal in the Premier League, it’s anyone’s guess who the best team is after that.

Serie A has five teams fighting it out, and each week, each one of them finds it difficult in a league bereft of goals and goal scorers.

Real Madrid have Vinícius Júnior, Jude Bellingham, Arda Guler, Rodrygo, Kylian Mbappé, and more, yet have stuttered in attack lately.

Barcelona don’t have a problem scoring goals, but struggle to find a balance between scoring lots and keeping the number of goals conceded down.

PSG play in a league where they have far superior resources, and the same goes for Bayern Munich, so it’s hard to judge them based on current Champions League fixtures and their own league form.

The point is, even the biggest teams in Italy, Spain and England don’t win every week.

The Pep Guardiola-Jürgen Klopp axis produced inevitable win after inevitable win, and the feeling is we won’t see that for some time.

With the difficulty of dealing with out-of-possession tactics, one of the ways in which teams use their strikers in a different way to create space up front is by dropping them in the build-up.

This tactical theory explores the role of a false nine and why they can be so crucial in certain moments.

Barcelona secured the top spot in La Liga after defeating Atlético Madrid in Gameweek 19 of the 2025/2026 season.

The Blaugrana hosted Atleti at the Spotify Camp Nou, in its new look, aiming to extend their winning streak.

With a 2-1 victory, Barcelona not only recorded their fourth consecutive win but also retained first place, irrespective of the Athletic Club vs Real Madrid result in the same Gameweek.

Despite conceding a goal in the 19th minute, Barcelona remained composed and tactically controlled the game, scoring twice and securing the win.

“This was one of our best matches. I really appreciate what I saw during the 90 minutes.

I think we deserved the three points.

With the ball, we were able to impose more control and create more space, which was very positive.

I think our performance today was on another level,” – Hansi Flick after the game.

Manchester United have a chance to to leapfrog to fifth place with a win over West Ham today.

Take a look at our Rúben Amorim build-up tactics and how they can break down the West Ham press.

Matheus Cunha was back at Carrington training and going to make a possible return today vs West Ham.

Take a look at our Matheus Cunha & Bryan Mbeumo transfer analysis and how important they are to the United attack.

West Ham are trying to rise from 18th place, and are going to try and snag some points of Manchester United today.

Take a look at Nuno Espírito Santo's tactics at West Ham as he applies his Nottingham Forest blueprint to The Irons.