The Rise of the Eights, the Fall of the Fullbacks

from The Double Pivot: Soccer analysis, analytics, and commentary · host Mike Goodman and Michael Caley

Szoboszlai to Liverpool, Havertz to Arsenal, Mount to United -- we're seeing a clear trend of top Premier League teams looking to move to systems with more attacking eights. What's going on? We take a little tactical and statistical tour of recent developments in football and explain why this is really all about fullback tactics.Support the show

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