The tactical trends of the upcoming season
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie and Liam Tharme are here to discuss the tactical trends of the last few seasons and anticipating these trends evolving in the near future.
What is a box midfield… and what are they for?
What are the roles of an inverted full back?
How will teams respond to box midfields?
Plus, some teams to look out for!
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.8 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as ever by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman. |
| 0:14.4 | Mike, how are you doing? |
| 0:15.3 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:16.0 | We're getting ready for the new Premier League season. |
| 0:18.1 | We are and the transfer window is being wild, |
| 0:21.0 | so I know you've been being kept busy with that, |
| 0:23.3 | but we do not talk about the transfer window |
| 0:25.2 | in this episode, listeners, do not fear. |
| 0:27.6 | We're gonna talk about tactics, |
| 0:29.6 | which is my great love. |
| 0:31.4 | And I was lucky enough to be joined today by Liam Tharm, |
| 0:34.6 | who's one of the tactics writers at The Athletic |
| 0:36.5 | for us to just have a long old |
| 0:37.9 | chat about what we expect the tactical evolutions of next season to look like. So, Mike, |
| 0:42.6 | you caught the conversation. What did you make of it? My favorite part was the talk about the |
| 0:46.9 | 343 shape, also known as the box midfield, and kind of that new progression into teams playing like that, |
| 0:55.3 | but then also on the flip side, |
| 0:56.6 | how do teams start defending that? |
| 0:59.1 | If that's going to be a trend going forward this season, |
| 1:01.5 | more clubs playing that three box three, |
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