I'm Joe Devine and welcome to the Tifo Football Podcast.

Today I'm joined by Alex Stewart to discuss Maroan Filani in part one and Kevin DeBreiner in part two.

This is off the back of two recent videos we made on the pair on our YouTube channel as part of the Tactical Profile series.

You don't need to watch them to listen to this podcast, but you can if you like.

One further thing before we get started, the launch of our new website and a full name change to

TIFO has been delayed by a couple of weeks. We'll be shifting to our new site from midway through

November now, so the YouTube channel name should change around then as well.

Please continue to like and subscribe and all the rest of it, and I have announced an injury to Maroan Falani, which will likely see him needing a number of weeks to recover.

So it's a shame that he won't be able to continue

what's seen as his sort of positive form throughout the next few games.

However, on that form, Alex,

were you surprised initially to see that Falani being,

or see that Falani was being chosen ahead of Anda Herrera

when the injury to Pogba announced. And I wondered,

you know, is that an issue of pecking order, do you think, or is that particular skills and

particular opponents, that sort of thing? I think it's playing to the strengths that

Marino looks for in his players. So he likes people who will do what he says.

And I'm not saying that Herrera wouldn't,

but Fellani has shown himself to be tactically quite adaptable.

He also does like big players, physically large players.

And he likes people who will track up and down and work hard for

the rest of the team that's particularly important with a two-man midfield access so i suppose

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