Why Xabi Alonso’s football is different

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• SA

  @Say-Chelsea · 4 months ago · pinned

  Whose here after the here we go to CHELSEA

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• CH

  @chewekasa99 · 4 months ago

  He will dominate Europe with Chelsea 💙

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• FA

  @favouramoul · 2 years ago (edited)

  i believe their success  is due to many teams using zonal defensive structures that's why they struggled against a strict man to man press of Atlanta and also the physicality of Atlanta's players compared to Leverkusen

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• SD

  @sdcrx · 5 months ago

  Welcome to Chelsea!

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• LU

  @lucasdavis5694 · 2 years ago

  What an amazing season. Unfortunately lost the Europa to Bergamo Calcio, but still a fantastic run. The sheer number of stoppage time goals, the comebacks. One of the best in recent memory.

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• AN

  @AndresMonge2100 · 2 years ago

  The next video should be about Sebastian Hoeness' Stuttgart

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• TI

  @timx0146 · 2 years ago

  This is the best channel of this kind. Brilliant analysis, but more importantly, the way of communicating it is just amazing. I enjoyed every second of this video.

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• MA

  @mannion7646 · 2 years ago

  This Leverkusen season has been one of my favourite teams to watch of any season since I started watching football 25 years ago. Love seeing a manager come in and completely revolutionise tactics in football. Alonso's ideas could be the blueprint for other managers all over the world.  Let's see where this takes football over the next 10 years! Thanks Xabi, Leverkusen and Purist Football

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• OL

  @oluwademiladesamuel165 · 2 years ago

  Would like to see something from you about Stuttgart and Hoeneß.

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• TH

  @thecatalysthd9701 · 2 years ago

  This is an excellent video. You can see some similarities between Bayer and Bologna with the proximity in possession and players filling spaces. The listening to players and having open dialogue in that fashion sounds akin to what Ancelotti does with his players, like his asking his senior players input in what training sessions they think should be done like at Chelsea

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• LA

  @lausymaus9856 · 2 years ago

  OMG the quality is going through the roof, have a great day my friend! this is super interesting.

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• TR

  @trichon3575 · 2 years ago

  The question I ask myself is how he teaches his players making the right positional decisions. How do you tell a player what the right space to occupy is, when you don’t have a rational system like positional zones or a formation for support. Is the solution you don’t tell them at all and rely on try and error in retrospective? Are there principles that guide the players and what could they look like?

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