Eze Come, Eze Go!
The traces of Thomas Frank may have missed Ebereechi Eze – but there is no time to rest if they go to Manchester City on Saturday lunch.
And although questions will be asked in the boardroom about transfer activity, Frank will scratch his head about how he can stop the new superstar of the city, Tijjani Reijners.
The 26-year-old from AC Milan arrived before the club World Cup in a £ 46 million movement as the successor of the creative emptiness left by the legendary Kevin De Bruyne.
And the Dutchman enjoyed one of the best debut that you will probably see in the Premier League scored, assist and the heartbeat of the game of the city in their opener against wolves.
And the tactic of Sunsport is the man Dean Scoggins – in our tactics of hit shows – is asked how Tottenham will put the chains on him?
Will Frank park the bus?
Well, I'm not sure if you can park the bus like they will attack.
But if the question is whether they will play a back-five, such as against Paris Saint-Germain in the Super Cup, the answer is yes.
Frank prefers the back of five against high class opposition.
It naturally gives an extra defender, but more importantly, it enables a defender to 'jump' in midfield and midfielders such as Reijnders.
City, which we will come up in more detail later, will flood the opposition half with figures.
But a way in which Spurs will try to stop him is by making the spaces that Reijnders likes to work as tightly as possible by repressing them.
Expect Micky van de Ven to do this role occasionally, with traces of central areas packing to suffocate space for the city.
Although they have to be in top shape, with Reijnders who prove that he is a two-foot player who is able to create danger in the air.
What Wolves got wrong in their defensive plan was trying to dive too quickly on Reijnders, where the midfielder was able to go along his marker before lifting a cross for Erling Haaland.
Even when he was in the context, runners around him can offer solutions to bypass the press.
What's new with City?
Pep Guardiola is tinkering all summer and we have sneak previews in the club World Cup.
In the 4-0 win at Wolves on Saturday, City was electric and tactical, it was very interesting.
There is a new flexibility because they form an attacking form of 2-3-5.
From goal kicks, their wing players can often start narrow, close to Spits Haaland, with the full-backs that offer the width to keep the game open.
But as they get higher on the field, the wing players start to turn from outside, with full-backs to give the three-man midfield, both sides of Nico Gonzalez.
This allows Reijnders and Bernardo Silva to bomb forward and participate in the front five.
And although much of the conversation is about the third man runs throughout the country, City is about to pioneer a new sixth man run.
Spurs will be deep in numbers against the city for five, but the inverted full-back will bomb to make a line-breaking run beyond the line of defense.
We saw people such as Rico Lewis, Matheus Nunes and Rayan Ait-Nouri do this a lot in the club World Cup.
And which way the ball is, there is an option for the sixth man Run.
It is risky, but when Spurs plays with five, the City gives a player less to worry about the countertop, which means that they can be a little more brave by committing an extra body forward.
Another change is how Wingers will be placed on a target kick.
Last season they saw the touchline cuddling, but in the club World Cup we saw the eight deeper and the wing players near Haaland.
The extra man is designed to lure an urgent rival into a fall and to leave the space behind them for the city and then immediately go for a quick attack, ironically, a very unstacular movement.
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