How Erik ten Hag is using width differently

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Premier League clubs like Man City have been using maximum width to stretch the opposition in recent years - but Erik ten Hag has previously used the term ‘minimum width’ in regards to the way his team sets up.
The Man Utd coach pioneered the use of narrow positions at his old club Ajax, but we’re now seeing it in play at Old Trafford with Marcus Rashford in particular getting the most out of the system.
But what does the term actually mean, and what are the benefits in keeping the system so narrow? Jon Mackenzie is here to explain.
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@chtwk3923 Год назад

0:36 is the best part of the video! 😎😁

@Diddy007 Год назад

I like the side by side of still with tactics board. It helps with understanding the match situations definitely keep that up

@Kimera794 Год назад

Hansi Flick's UCL-winning Bayern side played under very similar guidelines. Roger Schmidt's 4-2-2-2 shape also uses the concept of minimum width.

@dantoes1 Год назад

Nagelsman is also using minimum width, mainly to be able to win de ball back quicker.

@joshuastride Год назад

Jon on that relative width hype. Very interesting - excellent content and well paired with the Nagelsmann video!

@JettIRL Год назад

Can you do one on how Emery has Aston villa playing so well?

@chetanrao7778 Год назад

Aston villa has good players even before. Steven Gerrard was making them look bad.

@Q9Teen Год назад

@@sneezylasagne8534Would like to add Lampard -> Dyche as well. Much more solid at the back and better counter attacking

@btd2023 Год назад

If you’re still looking for a video like this I’ve uploaded one on my channel

@plopplop1984 Год назад

Villa went downhill in form after Gerard’s number 2 left for job at qpr…. Highlighted he was actually the brains behind the team set up not Gerard… g got found out for his lack of tactical awareness and lost dressing room

@xGegenpress Год назад

The mini tactics board added to video snapshots is a subtle yet valuable addition! Thanks

@caioas1997 Год назад

This video is FANTASTIC! Good pace, good and clear speech, and an awesome topic! Congratulations!

@b.r.e.t.t.s.a.n.d.l.e.r Год назад

Seriously under-rated football channel. My source of informed and useful football analysis and discussion. Makes all the other pundits, both on major networks and those on RU-vid, seem clueless and only in it for the views and clicks. Thanks Tifo!

@ohh2752 Год назад

yea its for people who don't understand football

@TheKrostiman Год назад

I love Ten Hag but he was the only coach in the PL that didn’t see that the way to damage Liverpool is to exploit their backs.

@liverbot4854 Год назад

Yeah, I don’t understand why he saw our horribly out of form fullbacks and decided not to let his most dangerous attackers test them. I think it’s a one-off, and the derbies will be much more tightly contested from next season onwards.

@ajprop99 Год назад

Well his gameplan was working. People see 7-0 and think liverpool dominated the full 90 mins. United were the better team until HT and a few individual errors forced ten hag to have to throw away the gameplan and chase the draw

@quocanh176 Год назад

did you watch the 1st game between them this season?

@nemboy1567 Год назад

He tried to do something new and it failed. If you look at the game against Liverpool at Old Trafford he played in a different way... mid block and counter attack, we won that game

@benedictjajo Год назад

@@TheKrostiman maybe he's impatient and seeing how Liverpool is doing awful this season and he wanted to play his football instead of playing like an average coach when faced against a big club i.e. low block counter attacking football. Unlucky that teams like Liverpool can be devastating on their day even when out of form.

@BenAnderson48 Год назад

I wonder if the best way is to combine the principles of maximum and minimum width in different phases of play. In build-up maximum width is extremely important in playing through the press. As demonstrated in the video, a team that is allowed to defend with minimum width can quickly counterpress and counter, and getting the other team out of their comfort zone is important. But in the attacking phase minimum width seems like a much better route that allows for those quick combinations. In addition, a particularly brave team could push a fullback into that wide area to help draw the opposition even further out of position if they are having trouble making inroads through minimum width. Well done to Jon for watching old Ajax TV clips and the team for giving him a platform to share what's in that big shiny bald head!

@spiritual84 Год назад

Is this what they call... min-maxing? 😎

@hungchoonghow5857 Год назад

You are football genius.

@super_organist Год назад

Which one does Liverpool play?

@haimainjauo242 Год назад

@@super_organist Minimal Effort

@haimainjauo242 Год назад

But the whole point of stretching out your team when atracking is that you make the distances between your opponents' players bigger! That goes against what you're saying about minimal width being better in attack? Isn't Pep's whole philosophy to stretch the pitch in attack? Pep's wingers stay as wide as possible but Ten Haag asks his wingers to do the opposite and tuck inside? There seems to be a few contradictions here but very interesting topic and video but it should have been more in-depth.

@06AlexanderSuper Год назад

Donny is actually an insane space maker it's very evident he doesn't handle the ball much but he's very clever in finding and creating spaces , making runs and one touch football a type of player who works in very few systems but still nonetheless a great player.

@haimainjauo242 Год назад

Best player at United in that regard. He's the Muller of this team if he ever played 5 games in a row

@fr3847 Год назад

@@haimainjauo242 100% he was touted as the next muller when he was at ajax

@weetak Год назад

Criminally under used in man utd ...only mata and matic know how to play with donny

@spiritov69 Год назад

Great explaining Thank you ❤️

@natangweiitula Год назад

Great analysis. I love you Jon. ❤👏🏾

@leomalinda2467 Год назад

This an interestingly technical analysis of the game. Thanks man!!

@adn17 Год назад

Really interesting. Thanks for convering width, which is a crucial concept in football. I always thought max width was the way to go, but good to see how Ten Haag uses his wingers differently.

@mikelarry2592 Год назад

Dutch philosophy from school of johan

@eleonarcrimson858 Год назад

Yo jon i didnt watch the full game but while i was watching the highlights, something stood out to me. Multiple times I saw mctominay having a lot of space to attack the box multiple times because of the wide players pulling the back line apart to cross the ball into the middle and the central players being a little further in the box. I think mctominay only had one shot and it was the beginning of the game. But do you think this is like a rehearsed game plan from ten hag? Because they dont have a proper striker that he is trying to create goal scoring opportunities for multiple players.

@aronjones Год назад

Jon said "width" a minimum & maximum of 27 times in this video 👍

@anmolmohan Год назад

Great video. thank you for introducing this concept so nicely. So what are we compromising for those advantages of minimum width?

@jasonkashefi8241 Год назад

Excellent video

@zochalke Год назад

Therapist: Wide Jon isn't real. He can't hurt you. Wide Jon: 0:41

@FPLExpression Год назад

A video on why Potter struggled at Chelsea, please?

@TheSealDribble Год назад

Players couldnt be bothered

@seanng7256 Год назад

out of his depth

@ObnoxiousOtter8 Год назад

Worst club to work or play for in world football👍

@sudharshanve8519 Год назад

No need for that. He was thrown under the bus.

@OurGrandfather Год назад

Jon McKenzie out here generating space .

@alohatigers1199 Год назад

Do people forget that a player INJURED Donny VDB, he’s not injury prone. If anyone go back to watch where he was injured, someone made a dangerous tackle and actually injures Donny. If ETH doesn’t need Donny, he would sell him already. A player that he managed and is an Ajax graduate, and plays in the champions league FINALS vs Tottenham... He ain’t no bench player.

@mattkilsby947 Год назад

Please do one of these for Wiegman’s England!

@chicofoxo Год назад

Would be nice to cover at the end the disadvantages of minimum width in the attacking phase. For example: it's good for Fernandes, but is detrimental to have a left-footed right winger like Anthony because then if the opposition has two sitting DMs he'll just run into traffic. This is especially the case if you have a poor attacking right back like AWB in 2020 Sevilla Europa Final, where the opposition blocked the inner channels and gave AWB lots of space because they knew he was harmless.

@fanpackers4 Год назад

This is every FM gegenpress tactic

@noblesleem1077 Год назад

Tifo & Tifo IRL thank you very much. PS. Might I add that I'm a Chelsea fan and a Tuchel apologist

@cheangizzz Год назад

Do a video on the latest Clasico

@Goobtard Год назад

The ladies: "oh, emmm that looks a lot smaller than I expected" Me: "It's not small, I'm just using width differently"

@haimainjauo242 Год назад

Just don't call it Minimal Length

@bigboibenedict7256 Год назад

Interesting video but I think the parts on being narrow out of possession don't really apply because even teams who play positional play try to make the spaces as small as possible without the ball, every successful team since Sacchi's Milan has followed this principle so it doesn't seem specific to what Ten Hag is talking about to be relevant to this discussion

@TheMasterhunter2010 Год назад

While i find the idea of minimum width very interesting and I understand its benefits to the defensive transition phase I wonder if it means it is also easier for teams who can easily find space outside to exploit I would also like to see how it affects build up structures and if it has any particular effect on rest defence structures

@mattvarner5825 Год назад

I was hoping for some more detailed analysis on how to stop teams who play this way. I feel like a good low block and counterattack setup can break this quote easily.

@Arijit_Manna Год назад

Brilliant from. brilliant from my manager Erik too

@gyatinaku3416 Год назад

Mason Greenwood would have been perfect for playing this role on the right wing as he can go both inside and outside hence exploiting the space on either sides. Antony tends to cut inside mostly.

@ANGELOFDARKification Год назад

This makes sense because Antony has slipped in Weghorst and Sabitzer a few times playing the minimum width role.

@hongnmc Год назад

I understand the positioning of wide players play an important part, but it's always 5 vs 4 in the demonstration, where the reds are always playing 2 against 1 white. So, does it mean if the opposite team plays 5 at the back or 3 CB with 2 wingbacks, Ten Hag's 'minimum width' no longer works?

@akamiguelsanchez9985 Год назад

Just left huge spaces for ASM and Murphy to run in to

@Groundsey Год назад

I heard Harry Maguire say ‘rest defence’ in an interview and I immediately thought of Jon Mackenzie.

@Hyde_Hill Год назад

They have the right coach just need to ad some players. Either next season or the season after they will be a real threat.

@joshdawson5850 Год назад

Give us a video on Thomas Frank

@ajahnpadawan8812 Год назад

Should definitely try and sign that van de Beek guy.

@noblesleem1077 Год назад

Was this why they were holding hands in training during the initial stages of this season?

@cesarvelizp Год назад

That’s how Man U trick Gabriel foe the Antony goal

@TheUnderwood95 Год назад

In a parallel universe, John's hands aren't starring on a RU-vid video but instead they're starring as 'The Handymen' in the 90s kids show Zzzap

@michaelarmer256 Год назад

When you see John explain your FM tacticas that you didn't know why you liked it 😅😅😅

@javorgeorgiev6130 Год назад

I've been trying to do something similar in fm and didn't know it's a thing. Wanted to play a narrow 4-4-2 that will congest the middle so the wingers could go wide with as little trouble as possible. The idea was that this way my wingers could make it to the byline unmolested for low crosses to the poacher, or just dribble in from wide with pace and square it short for a tap in. The CBs are pinned by both strikers pushing up. Depending on their block the midfielders either sit in front of the half spaces or stay low to distribute wide or over the wall. I wanted to make space outside to go wide, not have a shorter way in. Not using a 4-4-2 is not an option and my left and right back are not suited for overlaps, nor the wingers can hold the ball up well.

@haimainjauo242 Год назад

@@javorgeorgiev6130 can i plz ask how fun fm is and how much minimal (width) or length of time I need to dedicate to it to try it out at least for a month or two?

@javorgeorgiev6130 Год назад

@@haimainjauo242 Depends on what you find fun, because it's going to be a lot of parsing through data. Hours of tutorials on You Tube and forums to find out how stuff really works. The game does a pretty poor job of explaining itself and even hides some stats you can only see in the editor. I have over a thousand hours in it and regret every second, yet I keep playing it. It's been more out of curiosity and trying to mess with the AI. You can't get anywhere close to replicating real life football tactics in it, but it's fun to try anyway. If you want to have some fast fun with it take over some top club. The players will be so strong you can set any tactical preset you enjoy and still win a lot. It's more of a transfer deal and scouting manager than anything else.

@optiondezzo1513 Год назад

its a real shame Donny got injured so early in the season and missed the rest of it. if not for that reckless tackle on him, we wouldn't need to put up with this mctominay nonsense.

@aljames171 Год назад

What kind of Supriority does he create when he uses minimum width? and does it allow him to counter-press effectively? There's a reason why positional play uses maximum width.. all spaces are occupied at all times

@deydey6550 Год назад

He answered the question on counter-pressing though, did you watch it?

@mvanzijderveld3826 Год назад

Imagine if United would have a decent coach and tactical plan before ten hag so they wouldn’t have wasted donny’s career, I can’t forgive them for that. I miss my boy

@Rxfmm Год назад

He’s crap

@CERWINVEGAredRING Год назад

Ten hag loves the girth

@victoreric4557 Год назад

Tifo irl update….click! I’m a simple man.

@ndrew5809 Год назад

Is keeping the pitch wide irrelevant?

@debattamdas662 Год назад

Now I know why the pitch seems colour ed, they are actually channels!

@austindavis5016 Год назад

J O N JON J O N

@jakewilkraw 11 месяцев назад

Minimum width in transitional moments, maximum width against a rested defense seems optimal

@mss11235 Год назад

I am seeing throughout the video a sort of "hidden" variable influencing when the maximum/minimum widths are most effective: the state of play. If you are DEFENDING, then, I think, defaulting to a narrow configuration is the way to go (unless you press high), so, when there is a turnover and counter, you have the shortest possible distances to goal for your attackers. But when play is slowed down because the opposition are back, then playing and building up with width allows you to unlock your way down the pitch. Ultimately, you would want your players to have unlimited energy and be able to stretch and compress when needed. The EXCEPTION is when you are defending from the front: you need your forward defenders to take very specific positions and make very clever closing runs to force the building team into a mistake. I could see how, in turn, it would be difficult for the pressing side to get into a defensive shape in order to remain narrow... Simply to be ready for a quick counter. Given they are already pressing, these narrow, direct countering lines are, essentially unnecessary. I don't know. It seems that basically, if you play narrow, you are trying to gain value in fast transitional play at the expensive of a well drilled pressing regimen. Whereas, if you have a decent press plan, you can play wide to unlock the opposition with creative random runs and through balls. Playing narrow just feels banzai, and, if the defense knows that is how you play, they can just try to flood the midfield with athletic defensive type players and have a mindset to not pile people forward. Edit: Fcking didn't proofread to notice an embarrassingly inane attempt at a sentence. Fixed for clarity. Fck

@danielkhachanov5691 Год назад

Did he also use width to have +5 GD and the conference league

@didnaeknowyehaditinye2813 Год назад

Cool. What does he use to polish his head?

@hungchoonghow5857 Год назад

Raw eggs.

@KT-ki6gz Год назад

Jon “Minimum Width Dog” Mackenzie 😊

@tdyerwestfield Год назад

Oh look, Ten Hag has invented inside forwards, just like how he also invented defenders being in the right defensive position when in attacking possession or "rest defence". Nonsense, the lot of it. Just because Ten Hag comes up with an unknown phrase for a very common concept, it doesn't make him a leading mind in tactics.

@ryanfinnerty6239 Год назад

Facts. Many managers do these similar concepts and have done for a long time

@AJ-ry8qd Год назад

You're a fool, obviously ten hag didn't invent these strategies, we're only highlighting that he uses them to win matches

@haimainjauo242 Год назад

But nobody is saying Ten Haag is a pioneer or something YOU think that lol

@aab4606 Год назад

Bald is best! Eth you genius😊

@varunkumar7039 Год назад

Mr luke shaw himself !

@KiNASuki Год назад

Minimum width = JJ Bull. Maximum width = Joe.

@craigetherington705 Год назад

So Naigelsmann = less rigid Ten Hag?

@yoshooie6512 Год назад

Jon ginally going to end the accusations of anti United agenda with this banger

@ilovelimpfries Год назад

Lets not forget that this man is in charge of one of man utd worse defeat since ww2. Let that sink in.

@adityak6159 Год назад

Why don't you guys put match clips to better illustrate instead of images.

@mattvarner5825 Год назад

Playing minimum width seems like you're playing into what a low block wants you to do. You're relying on the quality of your combination play around the box to create chances

@--.-.-.--...---.-.- Год назад

that edit when jon said width floored me hahahhahahahah

@Taporeee Год назад

Eric "WIDE BOY" Ten Hag

@PGDJ88 Год назад

A minimum width dog is a greyhound a maximum width dog is a leonberger

@gilanggumilareka Год назад

Some people don't understand the role that weghorst plays in this system. Yes he's no superstar, but he fools defenders to create space for rashford, bruno and antony to score. The problem is that, Newcastle defenders were smart enough and stayed put. Therefore ManU got lost. This is why they need people like casemiro or eriksen to create other opportunities.

@MaxPower162 Год назад

So a similar idea to Nagelsmann 🤔

@skylarutd Год назад

Ole has left the chat

@Mysterialic Год назад

Ten Hag also brews his own shampoo. Please make a video on that.

@aakarmamtora3470 Год назад

Someone's salty

@avikarsewpersad9856 Год назад

@@aakarmamtora3470 Erik Seven Hag😂😂

@johnbarnes3365 Год назад

@@avikarsewpersad9856 liVARpool in the mud hahahahhahaha

@wind3 Год назад

Lol so many things wrong in this video. Appreciate the content tho

@t.robinson4774 Год назад

I've figured out that Erik's team are always going to have an advantage according to your table-top demonstration. The opposition only ever have four players! And none of them is a goalkeeper? Amazing tactical advantage.

@avikarsewpersad9856 Год назад

Next video. How Erik Seven Hag combs his hair.

@johnbarnes3365 Год назад

Pipe down bin dipper.. conference league next seson

@SatanicBeard Год назад

Is it just convenient for you to use Ten Hag and Man Utd to drive more traffic to the channel or are we really expected to believe that Ten Hag is one of the big innovators of this?

@Scottynsb765 Год назад

It’d be nice to have a video on Newcastle after they demolished united and west ham

@aakarmamtora3470 Год назад

Nobody cares. Demolished sure. Didn't get them a trophy did it

@jasonmillsom2981 Год назад

I remember people saying they don't score goals, damn they turned up😂 but yeah even as a united fan I'll admit newcastle were the better side by a mile

@zulalulua9645 Год назад

More videos on United please. Erik Ten Haag goes to toilet differently :))

@kkfaerber Год назад

“Here at the athletic, we have excerpt writers for all 20 premier league teams! Which is why for every time we speak about any other team, we make 5 videos about Manchester United.”

@chicofoxo Год назад

They do have 5 times the number of fans globally. Even more by multiples compared to say Brentford. Proportional representation in action.

@chicofoxo Год назад

They do have 5 times the number of fans globally. Even more by multiples compared to say Brentford. Proportional representation in action.

@benedictjajo Год назад

Athletic and tifo different.

@NailGanja Год назад

Starting to feel tifo are mu fans, after they win suddenly got video.

@mikelarry2592 Год назад

They say 😂😂

@WizTV21 Год назад

bro everyday a video about 7hag and united 🤦🏻

@AJ-ry8qd Год назад

Cry united hater

@S2580ss Год назад

Is Tifo just a Man Utd channel now?

@SatvikMagotra Год назад

The last 10 videos on this channel in order (excluding the podcasts) are about Nagelsmann, Potter, Haaland, Man City, Nottingham Forest, Osimhen, Scotland, Arsenal, Spurs and Fulham. So how is it "just a Man Utd channel"??

@bennnnn264 Год назад

nope. this is the first video in a bout 14 about united. im suprised there havent been more considering the club is up for sale tbh.

@timoomo5944 Год назад

Isn't it obvious that video relating to Man United goes viral

@emmanuelmoore3920 Год назад

Biggest club in the world tax

@dereyebrow5813 Год назад

First

@nami-ic5nv Год назад

so happy for you

@mikelarry2592 Год назад

Peps football 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mikeheap7978 11 месяцев назад

He's using hoofball just like Wimbledon, Bolton,Stoke and any club Sam Alladice managed. He plays fosil football 😉

@benedictjephcote6815 Год назад

The white team shouldn't have got 7 players sent off - especially the goalkeeper too. Very exposed when they turned over the ball.

@javorgeorgiev6130 Год назад

Looks like people use these more to show off why their club coach is better rather than caring anything at all about tactics. Expected, but still disappointing.

@TheIncredibleBeard_ Год назад

Oh look, another tifo reach around for ETH 🙄 For a "Leeds" fan, this fella sure does look fawning over Manchester Reds every time they win. Does tifo have a vault of these ready to drop after every win?

@robbiearrowsmith6006 Год назад

Ten Hag is just a great coach mate

@TheIncredibleBeard_ Год назад

@@robbiearrowsmith6006no he's a coach that did amazing in the one horse league that is Dutch football. Manchester Reds won't dominate the way they have in the past. Something that will drive ETH away because at his core he's hollow fella that has no passion for the club or the team.

@robbiearrowsmith6006 Год назад

@@TheIncredibleBeard_ Christ. In one comment you've exposed yourself as someone who knows nowt about Dutch football, European football, and also seem to be a bit of a mentalist. You reckon Pep grew up watching Summerbee and Goater or Klopp was a scouser in his younger days? Absolute drivel.

@TheIncredibleBeard_ Год назад

@@robbiearrowsmith6006 I think hardly anyone out side of Holland cares about Dutch football. Amazingly, Kloop is German (a great but very one-sided league) and Pep is Spanish (a great but one-sided-but-not-as-much-as-germany league tho). The only thing ETH and Kloop have in common is they are both sore losers. Pep is a gracious guy, someone who ETH could learn from. I ETH will be gone in 2 seasons as Manchester Reds are now the second team in Manchester and coasting on the success fumes left by Ferguson.

@robbiearrowsmith6006 Год назад

@@TheIncredibleBeard_ There are a lot of things I don't know or care to know about, but what I don't do is speak about them authoritatively as part of a nonsense argument to discredit a manager because I really really hate Man Yoo.

@homeboi4159 Год назад

Let’s not get carried away. We only won 1-0. Remember the we got crushed 7-0 by Liverpool and lost to Newcastle after the break.

@ideozublake8036 Год назад

fun fact: casemiro has only played 19 games this season

@hippiefarmer2488 Год назад

And you've beaten Newcastle in a cup final, Liverpool the game previous. City, Arsenal and Spurs too. Maybe don't get carried away by 2 losses against good teams after Utd's insane post-WC schedule - without two of their best midfielders. :)

@mrlaughgas Год назад

How Erik ten Haag used width to concede 7 goals.

@AndrewJames-xx7hz Год назад

JESUS IS COMING REPENT NOW.

@MenWithVen Год назад

Looks like I was right about Wout Carthorse. As bad as every "but he runs around a lot.". Admit it Ten Haag fanboys, he's a total dud you've been trying to justify to further the Ten Haag saviour narrative.

@nananou1687 Год назад

Ok dud

@SatvikMagotra Год назад

Martial has been injured half the season. Ronaldo "forced" his way out. The stupid board didn't want to spend money on Gakpo, Felix and hence we ended up with a Burnley loanee who might not be United standard, but has been influential and at least gives us an option, 'dud'

@MenWithVen Год назад

@@SatvikMagotra he's an absolute donkey and the fact that some Man Utd fans are so adamantly defending him is a sign of how far they've fallen. They could and should have so much better but standards are low these days.