Spain-Italy. A lot of interesting tactical aspects appeared during this fantastic match yesterday. One of them were Spain using Olmo as a false 9. I have looked a bit deeper into how Spain took advantage of this in the first half, and how Italy tried to cope with it.
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After a while Italy again changed their pressing structure to be able to press higher and cope with Spain’s numerical superiority in midfield. This time one of CB’s went high to man mark Olmo between the lines and to make it 4v4. By doing this they were left 2v2 in the last line.
Another aspect to it was that Italy’s wingers at times stayed more central to close space. Spain then used their fullback’s to break lines. The key’s to this was Olmo dropping even deeper to get rid of the CB and the FB’s low positioning, which led to W’s pressing.
Video from @luisviegasfoot. Thanks for posting!
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