Top 5 Tactical Trends of 2024 

You mean the completely plagiarised old Tifo vibe

Yea🔥. I remember when tifo was still called uMaxIt and it had 21 subscribers😅. Crazy how times move and things change. Tifo changed in a boring but nice way. Mostly boring but still informative as hell

Plagiarised graphic style

I'm not very informed about that story, but if i remember well, It was kind of a misconception. He yapped about how a 433 could also be seen as a 2 7 2 if watched vertically (so the keeper was part of the "Seven", not the "two"). Bologna plays in a 433/4231/4141 (formations are not important nowadays, principles are) and its style Is interesting because It mixes positional play and relationism. This choose has been done to beat the trend of man to man defending (positional play for example, had been born to beat zonal defending). A similar idea has been used by Xabi Alonso and Inzaghi. It Is used to find space in between the opposing players (and not in between the lines), but not every player of the team follows that idea of Freedom. Tipically they build a positional "structure" around the free players: two/three defenders, two players giving width and one pushing the opposing defensive line. In Bologna's case: the two central defenders, the midfielders and the forward are free to roam, while the full-backs and the wingers define the structure, sometimes mezzalas take their place and they drift inside, but that places must be occupied. In zirkzee's case, sometimes it's the space itself to represent the structural player (in pure Pep's style) and that's another great example of positional's and relational's philosophy mash. There Is a great article about this, It was written by members of the FIGC themselves, It Is called "a new era", and it Is possible to read it in english too, i recommend it to you.

Great video by the way!!

The 8.5 role is so cool