“Even the best defences don’t press high all the time. Sometimes they hardly do it at all. Like a veteran boxer backing against the ropes, a lot of the best pressing sides spend long stretches of the game crouched in a mid-block, tightening ranks in midfield while they wait for the right opening to come […]
“On Saturday night, at the end of a long week full of dark clouds, drizzle and reflection, Bayern Munich won for the first time in four games, beating RB Leipzig and ending their worst sequence since 2015. Bayern’s decision to announce that Thomas Tuchel will be leaving the club in the summer was intended to […]
Cabo Verde vs Ethiopia, January 2022. “Football, at times, can be an emotional catalyst, and is capable of uniting the hearts of an entire population. Particularly, if this population is made up of barely a half a million people distributed over seven habitable islands of an archipelago nation. The islands of Cabo Verde sit a […]
