Following Manchester United's fitness woes and the injury crisis of 2023/2024, a blog post on where things went wrong through a coaching and sport-scientific view.

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A summer scouting blog on Manchester United's youngest INEOS-recruitee, Leny YORO

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How do you analyse physical qualities of a footballer on a qualitative level?

Blog post on practical lenses fans can analyse players through without data:

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Blog post on Lisandro Martinez's box defending incl. scouting and coaching tips on how to be better at it.

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BG with one striker allows +1 between Martinez and De Ligt, which allows the RWB to join the frontline.

2/3 front 3 in the pendulum (pushing ball into pressing trap), two wide players in the middle of the red triangle

ttx

Hold-up play (a SKILL) involves

⚖️BALANCE
🧭ORIENTATION
💪STRENGTH

to perform multiple TECHNIQUES well.

There's not much to get out of public training videos except for surface level circuits/rondos/drills.

What I did expect and do like about Amorim is that he is timing the session himself in typical (?) Portuguese fashion

+ the integrated sprints with risk/reward (lose the ball = 50m sprint)

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