Tag Archives: Tactical Defending

Blurring the lines between defenders and midfielders

A recent tactical trend is to field midfielders at centre-back, an approach favoured by Barcelona’s Pep Guardiola and Tito Vilanova, who have refused to buy a “traditional” central defender despite needing back-up for Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique. Instead, they’ve converted Javier Mascherano, Alex Song and Sergio Busquets into defenders, with varying levels of regularity […]

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FIFA 13 Review

With the worldwide launch of FIFA 13 in the next few days (28th Sept EU; 25th Sept US); TKTG looks at the upcoming changes in the latest edition by EA Sports. Commentators will now switch to the touchline to provide details of player injuries, while Alan McInally will regularly phone in with the latest goals […]

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