Why did Dortmund struggle to beat Mainz?

Borussia Dortmund started their campaign in a home outing against tough opponents Mainz that ended in a less than convincing win for last season’s seconds. Going into the game, the main question was how head coach Thomas Tuchel would counter Mainz’s pressing high up the pitch and deal with three key players’ departure at the same time. The visitors lined…

Monika Kemp

The re-invention of Catenaccio: The evolution of defensive tactics

Attack, Attack, Attack As the tireless cliché goes: football is an art form – creative and elegant. That’s what we want it to be, anyway. Never have football teams been so heavily criticised if they didn’t exhibit The Beautiful Game in its glorious entirety. It seems passes are being praised more than goals. And as for the appreciation for a…

Monika Kemp

Julian Brandt: Bayer’s Blonde Bandit

Last season, Wolfsburg sold Kevin De Bruyne for a club record £55 million but could also regret allowing Julian Brandt to leave at youth level for Bayer Leverkusen. The German U20 international is one third of a dangerous forward line including Chicharito and Karim Bellarabi which has been involved in 11 of the team’s last 13 goals. Brandt has been…

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Which three clubs are leading the race for Toby Alderweireld?

Not many football fans had heard of Toby Alderweireld before this season. The defender plied his trade for Ajax before joining Atletico Madrid. It was at Atleti that Alderweireld was…

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