How Manchester City Won the EPL Title
This article is by Stevie Grieve and is a sample excerpt from a new book "Modern Soccer Tactics", which is due for release this summer. This book takes a look at the top professional teams like Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man Utd, Man City, etc. and breaks them down tactically. The book also includes practical drills and exercises on how you can teach these tactics to your own teams.
We don't have a definite date yet, but look for it some time this summer.
This excerpt is from the analysis of how the five goals were scored in the final game of the season between Man City and QPR. The book is packed full of these kind of articles and observations.
Diagonal Runs around the box create goals by Stevie Grieve
In the final game of the English Premiership season, there were lots of teams with something to play for – no less than Manchester City v QPR. Manchester City need to win to guarantee winning the league, QPR need to win to guarantee avoiding relegation. If City don’t win, they need to hope Manchester United don’t win at Sunderland (they win 1-0). If QPR lose, they need to hope Bolton don’t win away to Stoke City to avoid relegation.
Manchester City 1st goal – Zabaleta makes run diagonal run inside to receive the last pass
Silva spreads play wide looking for a 2v1, as Zabaleta has pushed forward and he normally arrives
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