Conte Suffered a lot in last Wednesday night in Old Trafford to deal with Eric Ten Hag high press when he lost 2-0, as he was so limited in changes to hep his team.
without a lot of text introduction lets start what’s happened ..
(1st half )
- Spurs
Spurs Scheme in build up looked like 4-3-3 despite starting with 3 in back by Ben Davis moved from 3rd CB to LB and Ivan Persic moved to LW.
Bissouma who was the one in front of defence line, Bentancur went little up on the right side and Hojberg being little beside Bissouma.
- Man Utd
Man united pressed by 4-2-3-1 as Rashford pressed CB who own the ball and closing passing way to another CB.
when the ball being with Loris, Sancho and Antony being wide as their next movement will depend on where loris would pass the ball.
- When the ball being at spurs right side
Bruno pressed Bissouma
Sancho positioned himself nearing to Doherty he let passing possibility to him from CB to press aggressively if pass done
Fred press Bentancur
Other side winger Antony positioned himself between another CB and Hojberg.
- When the ball being at spurs left side
Bruno pressed Hojberg
Antony positioned himself nearing to Davis
Casmerio Pressed Bissouma
Other side winger Sancho positioned himself between another CB and Bentacur.
- Spurs way to get rid of this press is playing longball to Harry Kane or Son, but United's CBs Varane or Martinez followed them tightly.
- Spurs depended on right side most of their build up, so Luke Shaw being narrow as a false No.8 to be more close against spurs long ball to Kane.
Look where Shaw intercepted the long ball down
(2nd Half)
- Conte reacted in 2nd half with poor solutions as he tried to depend on left side more and drag Hojberg more on the side to get Bruno and Fred out of their position and free spaces for Bentacur.
But Luke Shaw narrow position helped him to follow Bentacur in this space, until Sancho goes back from left side to centre.
- What should Conte do but he didn’t ?
At min 18th Spurs Succeeded to go out united high press by switching the ball quickly from right side to left side via Loris to Ben Davis so Antony wasn;t quick enough to track Davis.
So how many times this scene repeated .. ? Zero, as Spurs insisted to pass the ball at the same side they have it.
another solution Conte can't get it is building up with 3 in the back and get Persic more down to drag Dalot out of his position and make overlaod on antony with 3 vs 2 ( CB + LB + LCM) vs ( Antony + Dalot) as what happened at min 5th but Persic failed to head the ball, but it didn’t repeated also.
Great job 👏