“Formations No Longer Exist in Football." | Spalletti’s Napoli Tactics Explained 

I cannot guarantee that but what I am sure of is that they are one of the most entertaining teams this season

The defeat against Liverpool was napolis first since late April! They also have set a new club record winning streak of 13 games beating the 11 win streak set in 86 (I think). Spalletti has played down this season after losing influential players (mertens, koulibaly, insigne and ruiz), but the recruitment has been special! Fingers crossed they can bring home the scudetto! If they can continue how they have started then there's no reason why not... watch this space!

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Hey, Dave. I think it's time now that you make video on Ruud Van Nistelrooy's PSV Eindhoven tactics. By now you must have understood his coaching philosophy/style of play. But also even if you want to do that video on at the end of the season after understanding/analyzing his coachingphilosophy/style of play better, that's fine for me.

High Possibility if SSC Napoli continue this form.

the lineup is so deep, btw Ndombele has replaced Anguissa for many games. They are impressive, but the Lozano/Politano interchanging is a real tool that can change a match.(ex. today)

People haven't caught on how good this midfield is, one of the best in Europe

Mario Rui has been amazing in the 22-23 season. It's a shame no one is talking about him. If he's in the Portugal team in the world cup he'll certainly be their best player. Look at his work rate, look at the stats, look at the number of chances he's created for Napoli this year. Some crosses have been world class. But no one is making a video on Mario. It's a crime to forget him.

If you forget Mario Rui, then you haven't really seen Napoli play this season. He's created the most chances this season. Guy is working his ass off this season. Napoli would be 20% less without Mario this season

Mario Rui & Giovanni Di Lorenzo are superb pair of wingbacks

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He also transformed Internazionale from a shapeless team to a league title contender. Conte took all the credits for the scudetto, but at least half of the job was done by Spalletti before him.

​@@lucaguglielmo2142 Conte's Inter played a whole different type of football and had far better players than Spalletti had. Spalletti has nothing to do with that Scudetto in 2021.

Mario Rui will not be in the world cup :( He's had 7 assists in 15 games. He deserved to be in the wc squad Unfortunately for him Portugal has Cancelo and Guerreiro

I agree rui is a smart player

@@Killua4100 you should always have a an in-form player. Mario rarely gets injured and his confidence his high at the moment. He would have created a lot of chances for Joao and Cristiano.

@@krishhkhataniar I think that’s a poor tactic. An in form decent player will not outperform the likes of Joao cancelo, who are capable of having 10/10 performances and winning whole games for their team.

@@levicohen7333 Cancelo will most likely play on the right, Nuno Mendes is playing pretty well at PSG too. Quite hard for the manager to pick tho when there are too many quality LBs, just like England's RBs

Lol you saying we should be afraid of Napoli 😂😂

@@theeelite8618 with the form we are in rn, yes.

@@iTcmVids boy please

@@theeelite8618 Typical madrid elitism, underestimating the opponent

@@theeelite8618 bro respectfully we havent been playing the best right now, napoli are totally a team we should be worried about

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Ye I started watching football in the beggars of the wc and I supported Croatia in the beginning of the wc and we were close at the end nd supported Napoli and liked the team with ancelloti and I Waited for this dominance at least in serie a

The best example of this is ARGENTINA

@@audie-cashstack-uk4881 nice to know. I have not actually watched their matches. But would be interesting to see that at the world cup...

@@iso6203 scalonis philosophy is there is no formation only 11 players and to play Football they only shape up in deep defence wen attacking its 442 433 343 3331 532 the idea is Messi ismalways either central of right and with molina and demaria you get 111 attack from the right alm9st imposable to defend the left sided player waits for mesi to pass or passes to him they then switch to the full backs crossing and l A taro playing as a true centre forward most attacks are ,narrow but suddenly there wide and crossing the idea is football and freedom with each player playing a almost schoolboy game of only doing what comes naturally and o more this is why lecelso looks so world class with yhem he is played as a creator and nothing more depaul,is box to box they press at the back and the front jn rotation and the line up works in 442 433 4312 343 532 each player is simply 1 of 11 not a formation with world class goaly and defenders it works

yeah, there's a reason they are 3rd on the league so far

I think you'd like to say first half of last season

Pressing.

No need to make a video to say "money"

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Babe, I’m not laughing at you. I totally agreeing with you. You definitely understand football 👍

We had another video about him. Called him different names all the time.

Arrogant Brits...thinking they know tactics when they can't even score from open play...to boot they can't spell his name properly....twatman dave

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Ole just got utd to sit back and counter with pace.

as a Napoli fan i dream of meeting man city in the final

@@VincenzoBarbato tht wud a great finale too. Bt it gona be tight. Who win the tactician.. pep or spaleti

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Napoli don't sell

@@zorenwhite7886 i hope they dont

@@zorenwhite7886 cavani higuain disagree

@@mijr9075 Shit players

@@mijr9075 they only sold them after failing to persuade them to stay. They kept insigne Mertens and Koulibaly at their prime so they should manage to keep this team.

Even my Mother can Score in la la Liga 😂😂😂

@@mariomuslia9965 Call her then and tell her to take a plane to Barcelona, I'll handle the contract negotiations.

Do we still need Gakpo with the emergence of Garnacho? There's already him and Rashford on left and Antony and Sancho on right.

There are some news about man u for thr purchase of kim min jae. As a Napoli fans, we need to take off that release clause. At the start of the season 50mln seemed like a good price range, but for fuck sake who expected that he was so complete,not even us Napoli fans

3-4-3 diamond?

@@condimentofmassdestruction9114 442 diamond

Tbh, that's key to a balanced team = skill + power. It means skills builds but power can come from nothing as well eg speed or reflexes or strength so the defenders cannot do 1-on-1 but have to act as a unit against the striker therefore freeing up other attacking players. And just taking poaching chances adding goals out of nothing as well. Agree - Liverpool suffer without Mane this season for similar reason.

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Well, Napoli previously had other years of really enjoyable football, namely the two years in which they almost won the Serie A with Sarri, and some of the years of the so called "marvellous trio" (Hamsik, Cavani and Lavezzi) like 10 years ago with Mazzarri.

@@obitodmg5694 I wouldn't know cause I took a break from watching football from 2011 until 2020. I mean, I did watch UCL and EPL since these 2 competitions have always been top notch, but after my beloved AC Milan have fallen apart with the departures of Ibracadabra and Thiago Silva some 12+ years ago I stopped caring about Serie A, which is probably why I never got to see the "marvelous trio" Napoli. But even if I somehow managed to watch this marvelous trio that you're speaking of, I would have probably still not been impressed by it for many reasons: 1) I never liked Napoli, like I said in my OP, 2) I never liked Cavani in particular (Hamsik was ok), and 3) you can't compare Napoli to AC Milan. Milan have the most beautiful football in Europe when they have the right players like they've had in their heydays. Napoli can't even come close to what Berlusconi's Milan have achieved, and I'm also talking about Maradona's Napoli here. Even back then, aside from Diego (only one player), Milan have still been way better and way more pleasing to the eye than Napoli. And yes, I do know that Napoli, have won the Scudetto before Milan, but for me AC Milan have been way better (and they'll always be). Sorry, I'm just a Milan fan, I can't stomach Napoli :p

@@blabla-rg7ky actually that Napoli with Hamsik, Cavani and Lavezzi was exactly the one that arrived second against that Milan with the first year of Ibra and Thiago Silva together. However, Sarri's napoli was actually much better than that, it had a reknown style of football called "Sarriball", and it was amazing for the eyes. If you like how they play this year, I can just tell you that Napoli in 2015-16 but especially in 2017-18 was just as beautiful as it is now, just in a different way, it was second in Serie A with 91 points, a result that usually lets you arrive first.

@@obitodmg5694 it's not gonna happen, man! Stop trying to shove Napoli down my throat because you'll make me hate them even more. I can be unbiased and admit when they play well, or beautifully (and this season they do both, and it's only because of Spalletti, not because of anybody else), so yes, I can admit this. But from giving an unbiased opinion to becoming a fan is a long way and should come from the heart, not from facts. And my heart has never been with Napoli, so stop trying to convince me how great your team is because I'm not interested. For me only AC Milan (1st) and AS Roma (2nd) matter from Serie A from a neutral fan's point of view, and only when these clubs have players that I like, From Napoli I only like Karachvelia (or whatever the hell his name is, I can never spell it LOL) and Chuky Lozano. Those are the only guys that I like from Napoli and I wish my retarded Milan signed them before Napoli but the Milan scouts are so retarded, I honestly don't understand what the fuck they are doing all day long :(

@@blabla-rg7ky I'm not trying to make you be a fan of Napoli, but if you say "I've never been a fan of Napoli but I have to admit that this year they play really well" I just tell you that it's not only this year, they've done the same thing two or three times before, so you either hate them regardless of their game or, if you like them because of their game, you should have liked Sarri's Napoli too, if you simply don't know how it played because you didn't watch it's ok, but it was actually on par with this years'. If you like this team not for the game but for the player it's another thing, because Kvara is a world class player that can make every football fan fall in love, I recognize it. I was just trying to point a comparison with the past, I don't care at all if you are a fan of Napoli or you hate it.

I was also wondering...

They are so good that the players get bored and set up an attack against their own defense!

Yeah, but google will never fix the problem of listening a sentence and not understanding it. He said "introduced the false 9 into modern football". He didn't say: Spalletti "invented the false 9".

What about him?....Cruyff used in in the 70's...Spalletti used it in the eraly 2000's and Pep started using it in the late 2000's......that doesn't mean that he directly or only got it from Spalletti of course...but for certain Pep knew about italian football (he played there) and about Totti, and it is a fact that Spalletti used the false 9 a couple of years before Pep used it......when Spalletti was using the false 9 nobody in Europe had used it for 30+ years....then all of a sudden Pep and Ferguson started using it after only a couple of years of Spalletti using it...and keep in mind that in those years Totti was linked to every major club in the world (but he just stayed loyal to the club of his city until the end) while playing under Spalletti as false 9 he scored 26 golas in the 2006/2007 season...something that for a number 10 like him was not something that usual...so its not like him, Spalletti and Roma were unknown entities to the football world.....yeah, of course we can say that Spalletti was not the one that invented the false 9 role (it was first used in 1930 by austria then hungary and only after another decade by Rinus Michels...Cruyff's choach)...but he is the one that revived it and made it work in the modern era of football...and then came Pep that, with messi, perfected it.

i think Arteta definitely adopt more from Pep, but I also sense flexibility from his tactics especially with how he operate both full backs and how the rest of the team adapt to the changes.

When it comes to defending and losing possession and your team wants to press, YES. But roles and responsibilities is the point. The same reason why Spain won a trophy using 8 midfielders.

In Rome,when somebody pronounces the name of the Manchester United,makes himself the signal of the CROSS|!WORSE THAN A NEW COMEBACK OF THE BARBARIANS

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He is a donkey with the ball it wouldn't work

some of the first false 9's were used in the 1930's by austria who used a smaller forward to play in beetween the lines

In every video someone has to say something like this when talking about Spalletti..... the key word, that the guy used in this video is "modern football" as in less than 20 years ago...not 50 years ago...in the 80's 90's and some of the 2000s nobody in any major team in europe was using the false 9, until Spalletti (and the Ferguson and then Guardiola),also, even Cruyff didn't use it the way it is used in modern football.

@@micheleduritto Guardiola did regularly with Messi.

@@lucapagano7636 I didn't know about that. Interesting. Funny how some trends come back after a while. Like 3-5-2 formations.

@@pietjepuk5812 i never said he didn't, but just that he did it after Spalletti, Pep then later perfected it with Messi.

Mamma mia che pesantezza

@@lucacozzolino9862 boh gli inglesi, compresi i commentatori di bt, sono gli unici che pronunciano tutti i nomi dei giocatori alla cazzo di cane a parte quelli inglesi, senza provarci, se a te non da fastidio sono contento

Italians do exactly the same for names. Watching italian commentary for the prem is awful.

We napoli's fans call him kvara or kvaradona. He could use them if he doesn't know how to say his name

The truth is that it’s about the roles of a player and responsibility. It’s the same reason why Spain won a trophy using 8 midfielders. Formation doesn’t matter. You’re focusing too much on the shape