Tifo Tactics - Manchester Derby & Chelsea Without Luiz
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Joe Devine is joined by Alex Stewart to discuss the weekend of football just passed. The pair take a tactical glance at the Manchester derby, Southampton's trials at Arsenal, and life at Chelsea without David Luiz.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. I'm Joe Devine and today I was joined by Alex Stewart. |
| 0:06.7 | We've taken a slightly new approach this week. The podcast is obviously out on a Monday as usual. It's slightly later because we recorded it this morning and Alex and I took a look back at the weekend of Premier League football that's just gone by, with a sort of tactical impetus |
| 0:21.4 | from our perspective. Today we spoke about the Manchester Derby and the surprising result there. |
| 0:27.2 | We also talk about Arsenal Southampton, an improvement for Southampton in front of goal, |
| 0:32.0 | and also the grit and determination of the Arsenal side to see it through, but we speak |
| 0:35.9 | more broadly about Arsenal and whether |
| 0:38.2 | their identity is still what it once was. We also spoke about the Chelsea West Ham game, |
| 0:43.6 | touching on West Ham and a vital point for them as they move towards Premier League safety, |
| 0:48.2 | and also looking back on a season that hasn't gone brilliantly for Chelsea in the aftermath |
| 0:52.3 | of their victory last season and the potential reasons for that. |
| 0:55.8 | Well, anyway, I do hope you enjoyed today's episode. |
| 0:57.9 | Thank you very much for downloading it, and without further ado, here's start with Manchester City, Manchester United Alex, which is probably the big game of the weekend, although it's insignificance shone through in the end |
| 1:29.3 | to all but a portion of football fans from the country. |
| 1:33.8 | Going into the game, Manchester City were 16 points ahead, and they required a win to secure |
| 1:39.2 | the Premier League title, which of course symbolically would have been lovely for them to do against their cross-city rivals. |
| 1:47.4 | It wasn't to be though, Alex, despite the fact that at 45 minutes, it looked an awful lot like it was to be. |
| 1:53.7 | Yeah, it looked wrapped up at that point, didn't it? |
| 1:56.0 | Let me be more specific then, how about that? |
| 1:57.9 | It's a tactics podcast. |
| 1:59.9 | They looked, Manchester United, looked terrible in the first half, and looked great in the second |
| 2:04.7 | half, vice versa for Manchester City. Was there any specific tactical switch that |
| 2:10.1 | enabled this change? I think the main difference was |
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