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UCL 2024/2025: PSV Eindhoven Vs Juventus - Tactical Analysis & How To Coach Attacking From Wide Areas
Today, we have a post-match tactical analysis article from this past UEFA Champions League game week — we look at how Peter Bosz guided PSV Eindhoven to victory over Juventus.
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On Wednesday night, the stage was set for the last games of the first-ever UEFA Champions League play-offs, with eight teams fighting for the remaining four places in the Round of 16 of the most prestigious competition in club football.
In Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, two very big names in European football were fighting for one of these last spots, Peter Bosz‘s PSV Eindhoven and Thiago Motta’s Juventus.
For the reigning Dutch champion PSV, the role was very clear.
They were the underdogs, and after recent struggles in the Eredivisie, where they lost their lead after drawing three games in a row, the team knew that the task was a big one for them.
Looking at Juventus, the pressure of representing Serie A was definitely bigger than before after underdogs eliminated both AC Milan and Atalanta on Tuesday in their respective ties.
While Motta’s men have not lost many games so far this season, they are still adjusting to their new coach and squad.
They are nowhere near the title fight in Italy and will also have to go through the playoffs in this competition.
After Juventus won the first leg by one goal, the situation was rather easy: PSV needed to win at home while Juventus could not lose to advance to the next stage.
In Jonas Bartsch’s tactical analysis and post-match analysis, we will examine how the teams approached the game, how the game unfolded, and how PSV became the third giant slayer from Belgium / Netherlands to take out a top Italian team.
In modern-day football, teams expect to come up against compact defensive blocks designed to crowd the central areas of the pitch.
When the opposition prioritises preventing teams from building the play through the middle, attacking from the wide areas is often the most efficient way to goal.
Based on teams playing in a 4-3-3 formation, this tactical analysis will analyse the key principles and tactics involved in attacking from wide areas, specifically the movements and combinations of the full-backs and the wide forwards such as overlaps and underlaps.
The movements analysed will focus on how teams move the opposition’s full-back to allow either their wide forward or full-back to receive in behind.
This tactical analysis will both analyse the movements and suggest how coaches can implement this tactical theory.
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