After very un-Manchester United results; the 2–2 Atalanta, 5–0 loss to Liverpool, 4–2 loss to Leicester, losses to Aston Villa and West Ham, I thought it was about time to break into Manchester United’s tactics with their game against Manchester City. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thought, after that loss to Liverpool…

Heading into the international break, the most unpredictable league in Europe has kept to its brand in the new season, throwing up an unlikely team in the lead of the 2. Bundesliga after five games. …

On Saturday 22nd August, Bayern Munich faced Köln. …

TW: Self-harm, melt downs, you get the gist of it Newly engaged, a thriving job and with a new-founded way to recognise and cope with my emotions, you’d think I’d been a lot happier with everything. Well it turns out, I’m not. All my Borderline Personality Disorder aspects have greatly…

Sport1 here in Germany didn’t help me analyse this as it started 40 seconds too late and I had already missed Barcelona’s first goal, but with Chelsea three goals down in the first 20 minutes, I could see it wasn’t a great structure in defence. Chelsea looked like their plan…

Arsenal’s most likely route back into the Champions League was thwarted by ex-boss Unai Emery in the Europa League semi-finals. That, paired with inconsistent league form left them five points off the Europa places too. With three matches to try and gain ground for any sort of European competition (well…

We all should be used to the 4–2–3–1 formation that Mikel Arteta likes to set up his team in, but there has been a change recently; due to Kieran Tierney’s injury, Sead Kolasinac out on loan to Schalke and failure to address the latter’s departure in the winter transfer market…

When Arsenal played their first-leg match against Olympiakos in the Europa League, they overloaded the ball-sided half space by inverting the winger, moving both pivot players closer to the ball, with one dropping next to their centre back and the other occupying the centre. Despite Mikel Arteta being influenced by…

Just after the rumours that Xabi Alonso would be the next Borussia Mönchengladbach head coach, Sam McGuire of Twenty3 Sport asked my thoughts on the team; what are Gladbach and what do they need? I answered and you can read what I said with his article here, but to give…