![]() ![]() How do you make a team better at scoring goals? To start, you can train set-pieces more aggressively, but that still doesn’t seem like a huge point of emphasis for most coaches. To improve Chelsea, Tuchel, who was hired midseason, tightened up Chelsea’s defense, and the obvious way he did that was by switching to a five-defender instead of a four-defender system. In terms of explaining the results of individual matches, I’m with my man Max: a lot of it is bullshit. Games are won by the execution and talent of the players managers can help put them in better positions to execute and better positions to use their specific talents. Two more things that might not be unrelated! But in general, I think he’s right. All you need to do is put them in the best condition to do well.Īllegri, who proudly admits to not owning a computer (#goals), gave this interview while he was unemployed in late 2019. You don't have to teach them anything, you just admire them. ![]() Football is art and the artists are the world-class players. In Italy, the tactics, schemes, they're all bullshit. ![]() Sure, it’s maybe a bit more complex than that, but allow me to quote Massimiliano Allegri, winner of six Serie A titles - one with Milan, five with Juventus: ![]() putting another center back on the field. Space outta nowhere! And now he’s got Chelsea in the Champions League final by. His PSG and Borussia Dortmund teams produced some profoundly complex attacking play that frequently turned settled possession into what suddenly looked like a counter-attack. He thinks as deeply - sometimes maybe too deeply - about the sport as any coach out there. Thomas Tuchel is a fantastic soccer coach. It’s way easier to get better at stopping goals than scoring goals. Given that I didn’t watch any games played by the 2019 New England Revolution - or at least I don’t think I did listen, 2019 was like 15 years ago, man - I figured I’d try to use Arena’s first season with the Revs to explain some things I think I know about soccer. So, as someone who doesn’t follow MLS super-closely - and especially didn’t back in 2019 - I feel safe explaining the move as such: Team with most MLS Cup losses hires coach with most MLS Cup wins. No other team can “boast” as many MLS Cup losses hell, only the Los Angeles Galaxy - one of Arena’s former clubs - have made more MLS Cups than the Revolution. From 2005 through 2007, the Revolution made three straight MLS Cups. Some devious little cyber-scoundrel even added a section to the “MLS Cup” Wikipedia page with the heading : “Buffalo Bills of MLS”. Put another way: Arena has as many MLS Cup wins as the Revs have losses. He’s got five MLS Cups no one else has more than two. Despite the embarrassing flameout with the US, Arena is the most successful coach in MLS history - by far. You know, before “hiring Jose Mourinho” turned into a shorthand signal for “Yes, we are extremely desperate and don’t actually understand what wins soccer games”. This was Arena’s first job after overseeing the late stages of the USMNT’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, and this was also MLS’s equivalent of Tottenham hiring someone like Jose Mourinho in, say, 2016. The most notable thing about this iteration of the club is that they hired Bruce Arena. I’m not familiar with the 2019 New England Revolution, and I assume: neither are you. Today, we’re writing about the 2019 New England Revolution because Christian, a beloved reader, asked me to write about the 2019 New England Revolution, a team that finished with a minus-seven goal differential and the 14th-best point total in MLS. There were a ton, and actual soccer came back a lot faster than I expected. We’re almost to the end, and apologies to those of you who are still waiting on yours. Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesĪnother COVID-donation request fulfilled today. ![]()
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