Erik Studnicky

Over-analysis = move to surprise & chaos "The analysis around opposition is so significant that there will be a move towards surprise & chaos. Teams will throw things at other teams you won't have seen in the analysis." @benjaminryan | @BrentfordFC 🔗youtu.be/zOUiv0zu7hY?si…

Coventry City | Set Piece Analysis As Frank Lampard’s side secure their return to the Premier League it’s worth acknowledging the impact set pieces have had on their title winning season 28 goals - the best in the Championship & an XG of 0.62 per game Follow this thread 🧵

“Modern football demands adaptability, quick thinking & rich interactions. Opponents are very well prepared, and if you’re too predictable, you become easy to control. We want to be a team that is hard to read, yet still balanced, brave and attacking.”👇🏼 skysports.com/football/news/…

🚨💻 Roberto De Zerbi: “When I don’t work in my office, I go to find something important for me to give more information about the players because we have no time and have to consider everything to stay up”. “I use YouTube or Wyscout to find the best solution for the players”.

🚨🚨 كارلو أنشيلوتي في حوار مع صحيفة Il Giornale متحدثا عن أزمة الكرة الإيطالية و عن كومو 🇮🇹🔥 ✅ "إما أن نستعيد العقلية الدفاعية التي ضمنت لنا الانتصارات مع الأندية والمنتخب، أو سنواصل المعاناة؛ لأن كرة القدم ليست فقط تسجيل هدف أكثر من الخصم، بل أيضًا استقبال أهداف أقل. وهذا ليس كلامًا سطحيًا." ✅ "هل يُعتبر كومو ظاهرة صاعدة في الدوري الإيطالي؟ لا أرى أن هناك لاعبين إيطاليين. النجوم الكبار الأجانب لم يعودوا يأتون إلى إيطاليا. هناك نقص في الأسماء العالمية الكبيرة مثل ميشيل بلاتيني، دييغو مارادونا، رونالدو… على من سيتعلم اللاعبون الإيطاليون الشباب الآن؟" #Azzurri 🇮🇹 #FIGC 🇮🇹 #SerieA 🇮🇹 #SerieAEnilive 🇮🇹

Pellegrino Matarazzo, from Bergen County, N.J., has led a turnaround at Real Sociedad. And on Saturday, he could become the first American coach to win a trophy in a top European league. on.wsj.com/4tMmeqo

Spain’s style of play once again demonstrates why they are the benchmark in the Champions League and at international level. Read more in my new column @guardian ⚽️ 🔗 theguardian.com/football/2026/…

Belgium focused more on small-sided games in youth football after failure at Euro 2000. @KrisVDHaegen, their Director of Coach Education, told TGG in 2018: “Kids want to play football in their own way, not the way adults want to play." trainingground.guru/3v3-matches-at…

📰 Analysis: What Happened to Arsenal Against Southampton? 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/jmftbl/p/w…

🎥Match Analysis Arsenal vs Man City Man City Out of Possession- Press 🧵

In the middle of a press conference, Botafogo manager Renato Paiva delivered a masterclass on the two types of football — real-life football and Walt Disney football, as he called it. "Nowadays, with the media and especially the Internet, there are TWO TYPES OF FOOTBALL: real-life football and Walt Disney football. In real-life football, you have to understand who you are, who you're playing against, and you can't always play the same way because sometimes you're not allowed to either because of the opponent's quality or their tactical setup. In Walt Disney football, everyone has to go all-out attacking and it's like we're playing alone. After beating PSG, in people's minds we had to DESTROY Atlético Madrid. Let me tell you a story: I ran into a fan, it's good to interact with fans, and he told me we should've played differently, that if we had approached the Atlético Madrid game another way, we would've won for sure. That we were too defensive. So I asked him, because it's his opinion and I respect it, 'Tell me something, how many times have you watched Atlético Madrid play this year?' And he said: 'I haven't seen them at all.' There you go, explained. That's a WALT DISNEY FOOTBALL comment. 'I believe it should be like this, I think it should be like that, and so everything must be done that way.' We were 'happy' and deserving against Atlético Madrid, but then five minutes before the end, we conceded a goal and NOW EVERYTHING IS WRONG. What worked against PSG? Gone. This is one of the issues we have to address: the final result tells you if it worked or didn't, whether you're great or not. People like that don't care who's on the other side."

El plan de Roberto Baggio para refundar el fútbol italiano. Lo rechazaron y siguieron acumulando fracasos

“The job has changed. It’s no longer about coding games and generating data reports - that’s increasingly automated. “The value now is in interpretation and communication. If you can’t translate insight into something a coach can use in 30 seconds, it doesn’t matter how good the analysis is.” @CraigNosworthy | First Team Football Analysis Lead, Manchester City trainingground.guru/louis-langdown…

Las Vegas Lights FC announced that the club has hired Robert McCunn as Performance Director. 💪 McCunn will oversee both the performance and medical departments at the Lights, including player activations, strength and conditioning programs, return-to-play protocols, rehabilitation processes, and more in close collaboration with the full technical staff.

I spoke to the always fascinating Mircea Lucescu for @guardian_sport ahead of Romania's crucial game vs. Turkiye in Istanbul. You can have a read below. theguardian.com/football/2026/…

Statement......Coaching today in all aspects has become much more focused on managing and reducing risk, and that shift is a big part of why we’re seeing less creativity in the game.

A milestone moment ⚡ Manuel Arteaga hits 150 USL Championship regular season appearances in his Lights debut on Saturday 👏

📍Colorado Springs.

Christian Pinzon has been named to the USL Championship Team of the Week Bench for Week 1 👏

I spent the week acting as set-piece analyst watching 100s of corners to understand how corners routines are devised Speaking with set-piece analysts, I wrote about how to analyse corners & the tactics behind them resulting in 1/5 PL goals, for @BBCSport bbc.co.uk/sport/football…