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Under Mauritio Pocchino, Tottenham Hotspur have morphed into a title challenging side in the Premier League.

Today, I'm joined by Alex Stewart to take a more in-depth look at Tottenham's tactics.

Alex, the video highlights the two main formations used by Pochicino this season

and how the team can situationally shift between the two during a match when necessary.

This is something we haven't touched on too often in our tactics explained videos,

but presuming that you have technically proficient squad,

shifting between different formations fluidly during a match is an option.

If teams can do this, why do we so often see teams sticking to principles such as

consistent number of players in defence or midfield or, you know, if more potential benefit

could be derived from a more fluid approach. So in the example with Tottenham today is that they

can, you know, essentially shift between a four and a three at the back with the fullbacks

pushing up and the deeper central midfielder pulling back at times, right?

Yeah, I think there's two answers to this.

The first is that Tottenham's squad is unusually well-balanced for both approaches.

The fullbacks, both sets of fullbacks, in fact,

the reserve full-backs, Trippier and Davis, I would include in this as well, are capable of playing as wing-backs so they can either play as full-backs in a back-four, or they can play as wing-backs

either side of a back-3. You've also got in Wan Yama and Eric Dyer, players who are very

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