Welcome DebriefSky Sports column in which Adam Bate It uses a mixture of data and opinion to think about some key stories from the latest Premier League matches. This week:
⬇ Tottenham’s defense tactically exposed
🟦 Gundogan found its form in Man City
🔥 Malen who has his opinion on Aston Villa
“It’s not as if players were doing deliberately,” Ange postcoglou said after the defeat of his party 4-2 Wolves. “I would probably be more frustrated if it was something we did from a tactical or organizational perspective, but they are individual mistakes.”
Some of Tottenham’s mistakes in Molineux were inexplicable. The uncertainty of Guglielmo Vicario was almost comical. Cristian Romero seemed to have passed the ball for the third goal of Wolves. Lucas Bergvall gave up too easily to Matheus Cunh at the fourth.
According to Opta, these are two mistakes of the second half, which are recorded as mistakes leading to goals – for the first time a year that Spurs did so much in the Premier League. But to refuse it as a mere aberration would be a little kind of postcogla.
His team looked widely open, completely unable to deal with anything from Wolves, because the home side absorbed any knockdowns. Every defender of Tottenham looked insulated, gaps too large, back and front spaces. It was a mess.
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Postcogla is the opposite number of Vitor Pereira knows it well. The couple first went to the head of the Asian Champions League and traded with their relevant teams when he was postcogla in Japan and Pereira was in China. He had a plan for him.
Then, at a press conference, Pereira asked if he himself considered Tottenham’s many mistakes as just The individual mistakes or moments that his team forced his team gave an illuminating answer. “Football is strategic,” he explained.
“When we feel that the block is higher because they want to push us – and I know they like to push the passage back – the back spaces, they were there. That means at that moment, a long ball, and then be ready and ready for the second ball. That’s what we did in training to prepare the team for the moment.
“After facing a team that hits a long ball and once wins the second ball and creates problems, twice and create problems, three times and create problems, next time the line will be afraid to go and admit a lot of space in the back.
“This means that we started to have some gaps between the lines. We created these spaces between the lines and when we create these spaces between the lines, we can play.
“But it was difficult before. It was hard because they were a strong team.”
Spurs can be a strength, but the point is not a disaster. Data on the expected goals show that only the lower three will give up more chances. They are the only team in the lower six who admitted less than statistics say they should do.
With the three first selection defenders on the Wolves bench, there was some alleviation. Postcogla focuses on Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday. However, these defensive vulnerabilities were the feature of their season. The review will only continue.
Re -finding a gundogan search
Pep Guardiola was asked to win 5-2 Manchester City over Crystal Palace to see if James McATee could be one to help fill the huge emptiness that Kevin de Bruyne remains. The head of the city was eager to not put such a lot of pressure on one individual.
But maybe this is the second arrival of another veteran urban legend that could help relieve de Bryne. It was a pleasure to be there to be a show of a great Belgium, but there were also indications that Ilkay Gundogan found his appearance again.
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De Bruyne caused things to happen, but Gundogan, playing in the left canal, was an ideal film. He completed 68 of his 70 passages, his 97.1 % accuracy of the best of any outfield starter on the pitch. Guardiola liked what he saw from him for a moment.
“Gundo from Leicester, Gundo of Bournemouth, Gundo of today, is Gundo, which I remember since we won heights and four times,” Guardiola said. “His pace, his defensive intelligence, as he will come. Now he’s massive with us with us.”
Ilkay Gundogan zone events and Sonar passing for Man City against Crystal Palace
Gundogan talked about the team when he recently said he had seen a “some change” – an improvement in the attitude of the city and shows more aggressiveness without the ball. Guardiola agrees with this evaluation and thinks it now helps Gundogan.
“As a team we couldn’t help him,” he explained, “Because it’s not about you, you or you. Everyone was down, he was down because the team didn’t play well. When the team plays well, the individuals are rising. Without, the whole football you can’t do.”
Before Christmas, City won just one of the 11 games that Gundogan started. Since Christmas, they lost only once in his 13 starts – and the defeat was gone to Real Madrid. Perhaps the news of the demise of the German international demise was very exaggerated.
In October, he turns 35, but he is expected to stay next season, his extension of the contract began to establish. With several successful dribbly against the palace, old skills of carrying balls at the exhibition, perhaps for this particular city still plays a role.
Malen’s great impact on the bench for the villa
When he talked to Donyell Malen, soon after he signed for Aston Villa, he distributed his plans. “I’m just looking forward to being here, improving and playing in the Premier League,” he said Sky Sports. “What do I have to do is shoot goals and be important for the team.”
Malen is doing it just. His goal against Southampton on Saturday was his third in three consecutive games in the competition and remarkably similar to his first strike against Brighton. This was also a vicious effort at an angle hit low in the far corner.
Since signature to Aston Villa, she shot the Map of Premier League Donyell Malen
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It is unbelievable that this season has the best strike in the Premier League this season, on average better than the target in 90 minutes. It is not a huge coincidence because it also had the most shots at the target in 90 minutes. Small sample size. A big impact.
Donyell Malen was mortal for Aston Villa – took over the role of Jhon Duran
On Tuesday evening, of course, a big game against Paris Saint-Germain, for which Malen is not available. His disappointment that he was not registered in the Champions League had to be huge, but he responds to him in the right way.
Malen’s long -term future in Villa looks clear. It is a replacement of Moussa Diaba, which they needed in the summer, which is upgrading to Leon Bailey on this right wing. Unai Emery has moved Morgan Rogers there, but it must be tempted to trust Malen with more minutes.
Meanwhile, he is a Vil’s finisher outside the bench – exactly what was needed after the loss of Jhon Duran in the winter window. With more goals than the beginning Malen quickly becomes a favorite fan. It provides this ambition to score goals and be important for its team.
