Why inverted fullbacks have become so popular
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Elite managers like Pep Guardiola & Jurgen Klopp have been using inverted fullbacks in recent season to huge success. But why are they so vital to their systems and dominance? JJ Bull explains.
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If inverting fullback was a thing 10 years ago I'd be playing in the premier League rn
bro lost his career to an excruciating knee injury 😢😢😥
@@MerrillDragonAge that's devastating , especially for people who quit school to pursue football
Inverted fullbacks has been there for ages it's only the Prem that it didn't exist.
Bro doesn’t know who Lham is 😂
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I've been watching this video for two hours. JJ really knows his stuff
You've been watching a 30 sec video for 2 hours??
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@@sususegar2 hours = 120 minutes
120 minutes = 7200 seconds
7200 seconds divided by 30 seconds
7200/30 = 240
mans watched this video 240 times ☠️
@@dankfulm1c.273 dude... you could've just multiplied 120 minutes by 2 to get the total...
@@sususegar idk man I did what i know
My man’s hairdo straight out of a 1997 teen mag 😅
😂 I hope they aren't gonna be pink in a few years time ..
Streets won't forget Marcelo being an extra midfielder for three-peat Madrid.
Cringe
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Mate that Scotland away shirt is FIRE.
Inverted fullbacks
Also known as half backs in your great grand dad's era.
Inverting a fullback not only gives chance to start a play,it also helps in covering the space whenever there is turnover from opposition and cove rather space quickly rather than taking time running from one end to another like traditional fullbacks
man sounded like yoda when he said "theres a problem"
Great little short, would love to see more tactical explanations like these even if I've seen them before, they're great to recap
I guess ten hag is trying to do the same, that's the reason he wants mount as the other no 8 along with bruno, and shaw n dalot can invert to support Casemiro
Problem then becomes rashford as a lw is thoroughly underwhelming if he can’t come inside with proper regularity.
So he’ll have to work around that.
He was doing it at Ajax too
i think with rashford and shaw on the left its best if shaw stays a full back cause rashford is an inverted winger but it can work on the right with garnacho and dalot cause garnacho is more of a traditional winger
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This could be a good option for fullbacks once their legs start to go a bit
Ball knowledge or football humour? I guess I'll never know
@@MerrillDragonAgemaybe both?
Ehhh, depends on the fullback. You gotta have a certain skillset to do this properly and not end up being a liability as seen at Arsenal when Tierney (an amazing natural fullback) looked horrible and barely played last season because he couldn't do it.
@@goated6146he’s an alright fullback not amazing mate.
Arteta and Klopp are just copying Pep .😂
How does this man think that hairstyle is acceptable
If Havertz plays in the position Xhaka holds now, then this will be a masterclass of a transfer due to Arsenals tactical set up. He’ll be in a role with loads of offensive and creative freedom
Helps us defend as a 442 when he becomes a SS ,pretty dope to think of Lol
He'll be a gem for us and since there's little expectation I'm sure he'll be fine
My thoughts exactly 😊
The main problem with this is. Havertz is EVERYTHING but creative. In 3 full seasons in Chelsea he hasn’t created much at all. It didn’t matter if he were playing as an attacking midfielder, SS or a false 9. He were so frustrating cuz he is a talented footballer but his mentality is bottom tier. He can have a good month followed by 5 mediocre months every year. The creative burden in chelsea were up to Mount, Reece, Chilwell & Kovacic to fill. I’d genuinely be surprised if he can play in the middle and perform at a top level. He doesn’t have a single attribute I’d class as world class. “Capable in many positions/roles, master of none” comes to mind every time I think about Havertz
Timbers probably gonna be playing more than white soon
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In brazil, fullbacks have always been attackers too
Besides pep I don’t know epl had tatics
And then Zinchenko gives away about 5 goals a season cause he’s so much worse at defending
Great vid. Football is constantly evolving and the use of inverted full backs has given the teams who do it well a good competitive advantage over the last 2 years.
I think over the next 2 years we'll see the use of energetic, tenacious high wide players (think Park Ji Sung) to target particularly effective inverted full backs like TAA.
It's a completely different ballgame trying to play like TAA, Zinchenko and others when your space is closed up like a typical midfielders usually us.
This is dated. Pep had changed the game already
Inverted fullbacks are essentially the best of both worlds. They allow you to have an extra creative midfielder leading and preserving an attack while still being structually sound from the back, giving you numerical superiority on both the front foot and on any counterattacks, all while never sacrificing a direct attacking threat.
I started doing this in fifa around fifa 18 and ever since ive been in the elite league of futchamps without ever spending money on the game.
No, it’s because of the anime Aoashi
I understand the idea, but dismissing Jota as a good target for crosses in the box feels weird, given his ability to score headers.
Ben White plays as a RB but inverting to CB not CDM, but does push up to a RM spot too
klopp copying pep again
But there is a weakness the defending team can launch a counter with pacy players on the flanks
There's always another tactic/ formation to counter the one that's in fashion
@@Danny_SE11 But this time it's the one meant to be replaced by this "new" formation---which is kinda silly.
Every formation is prone to getting counter attacked, but this meta can cope with counters better than other formations as the inverted fullbacks can cover the flanks and close up quickly due to their pace, unlike most midfielders. It's really the best system for big teams right now.
that's why pep ditched inverted fullback thing with duel monsters as fullbacks
@@russow1074 pep went to a back3 never thot
Ben White, John Stones, Zinchenko, and Cancelo are some examples of this kind of player. Maybe Timber can play that role too but that remains to be seen.
Stones is an inverted centre back not full back
Y’all want your player to be john stones so bad, I would never recognise arteta as a good coach because all he does is copy pep
@post181 he doesn't copy pep. He's gone from a 343, 4231, and 433. However, the principles are common across the board
@@Ali48529you can’t get away with saying y’all while acting knowledgeable about football brother
Cancelo isn't that kind of player that's why he got offloaded by pep.
He likes to go forward and overlap
Put respect where respect is due. Pioli/Theo started this.
Just have JJ be the front man! I could listen to his breakdowns all day
Tiki taka needs to come back man, matches look awful nowadays
Tuchel did this with Chelsea 2021
LOL. Pep doesn't even use Full backs much any more. He now runs 4 CB instead.
Funny that you give credit to Pep for this when actually Tuchel introduced this in recent years first with Chelsea when especially Chilwell always moved into midfield in attack. Guardiola got inspired by it because Tuchel beat him 3 times in a row including the CL final! Dont disrespect him and Chelsea!
Why can't anyone of the greatest managers find all 11 players (including the GK) who are daring to take on 1v1, that is my question...after all, they are "professionals"?
like every manager did it before lol just given now another name to it ? Never heard of the famous dimond Ancelotti play in Ac Milan ? He used all the fullbacks as well on ALL the pitch even in Center forward somtime
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“Inverted” feels like the wrong word to describe “a fullback that moves inside as an extra central midfielder” considering “inverted” is used for wingers that play on opposite wings than their main foot.
Guardiola actually invented the inverted full back to provide ‘an extra defender’. He first used the role in the bundesliga to mitigate fast counter attacks by deploying the fullback more centrally, essentially creating two extra holding players
Could it have something to do with coaches trying to play 4 CBs for set pieces and ending up with two players who can't bomb up and down anywhere as much as a proper fullback can?
If you pay really attention to the 11 players position is the same in Liverpool and Arsenal frames. Where you have Zinchenko at Arsenal you have Jones at Liverpool for example.
Haven’t full backs always done this? I played as a right back in the early 2000s and my job was to push up to allow the winger freedom lol
I need more content like this. Another!
Funny, full backs in Brazil have always been seen as attacking, in fact if you think about the greats, they're almost all very attacking.
Wide defenders that spend a lot of time in attack. Sounds like something that was done in Brazil a few years ago. Wild stuff
Now we're back to playing a WM, just like in the 1930s.
Everybody copying pep ok
But still the rival clubs using our tactics
Show us some respect
don't be morone I am ur loyal fan and I get dissapointed too much when you don't mention E10H name
I have the inverted fb in fifa
Paolo Maldini was one of the first inverted fullbacks, Paolo is actually naturally right footed, and started at RB but playing at left back early in his career turned him into a dual footed monster. Same goes for Zambrotta, who went from Central Midfield to Right Midfield to Left Back. Quite a few Italian players have done this in the past, later in his career Javier Zanetti was also deployed at Left Back.
I thought he was Goku from that crappy dragon ball live action movie ..
Yet you’ll see weirdos like lee gunner telling you inverted fullbacks is a stupid tactic
So everyone knows this tactic now. Will we see something next season that breaks it down?
This is right. However, the age of inverted full backs is already dead
Is inverted even the right word? What about progressive or attacking?
Have become? Man has never seen Roberto Carlos play, i guess
Arteta only uses because he is a student of pep pep effect moment
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And they say tenhag copies pep he's not even on the list😅
It's funny seeing your formation screen at the end of your clip. Coming from a field hockey and football background. The traditional field hockey setup is 5-3-2.
2 fullbacks, 3 traditional midfielders and 5 attacking players, 2 wings and a centre forward, then two "insides" who would either be attacking players adding extra numbers for a cross from a wing, or be an extra midfielder to shut down opposition attacks.
It's funny seeing the switch in football in the last 5 or so years to teams adopting this setup, when hockey is shifting to a more football-like 3-4-3 approach. (3 defenders, 3 midfielders, 3 forwards and a floating player/pivot depending on the situation).
For years as a player, and then as a coach in football teams I have tried encouraging my teams to play more "hockey" minded. Having a pivot and wingers and 2-3 other players who just spend the day running to be the extra pass/tackle if needed.
I guess others higher up in football have been watching hockey as well.
Who’s this tube? Needs to sort out his 2005 haircut
Madrid’s being doing that was for a solid 6 years
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this is literally an old tactic, AW used this with Arsenal for a while, so have many national teams have implemented this. The reason it's more popular now because of the manipulation of the midfield adjusting the attack and the man tactics involved there on defending counter attacks.
I just thought it was because they watched Ao Ashi
This is also something that bielsa was also into... Not as inverting full backs but as in not using them at all and just using an extra midfielder and having his wide players stay wide. I think the next few seasons will see full backs bombing forward less and less.
Man Marcelo has been doing this 10 years ago 😂
It's all basics, you utilize the players you have. Don't force players to play something they can't do (not to confuse the idea of letting players grow) and they can give you an ability to be creative.
its fresh and people are still trying to either figure how to implement it properly or how to counter it, also whenever you occupy or attack a part of the pitch, some other part opens up, the full back not overlapping means the opposition full back needs to cover only the inverted wingers, this will also allow the free CB to either read and cut out passes or be aggressive and go out to tackle, now this just works on theory, how people will implement such things still remains to be seen
As a RB. I feel like the physical stress have increase we are basically extra attacker yet we still need to get back on defense. I be making runs every play yet the amount is times a CM or a WG play the ball to us is minimal
Roberto Carlos and Cafu was the first ones
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its so efficient distance for fullback to shift more to central midfield when in possesion and using their intelligence passes than making effort to far far away of opponent flank and just crosses there
Save all that bs and just play 3 at the back 🙄
would you rather have a technical fullback that can't defend or track runs playing in midfield, or would you have a physical midfielder playing as a fullback that's not technical?
Roberto Carlos, Am I a joke to you??!!
I thought Phillip Lahm was the first inverted full back?
And who managed him? Pep
One of the first, and guess who his manager at the time was? Yeah...
@@t.d.2016Neil Warnock?
Ever heard of the name Marcelo & Roberto Carlos?
@@samking5101 Lol
Only a fullback comes close to a pivot in terms of split second decision making because they only have one side of the field to pass the ball
wa it pep who implemented this first? and I don't mean like first in history but first one on the prem. or was it de zerbi on brighton?
😂 But there's a problem 😂 Satirising tiktok style vids while providing a genuinely insightful one. Gold.
Like Guardiola,Arteta and Klopp? EVERYONE has been doing this for so long.... Bruh.
But there is a problem😂😂
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That's why a 3-5-2 is better
Say no more I’m changing my overlapping fullbacks to inverted in FUT 😂
He looks like weird barbie
Antonio Conte did this with Chelsea really well and he played 5 at the back
Nice to see Busted getting work
All theoretical if you dont have the right quality of player.
Why he talks like that 😓
That JERSEY omg
Pep used them first. Klopp and Arteta just copied him because it works. 😂
Klopp switched back to 4-3-3
I thought the whole prem is playing this formation
“Why managers like Guardiola and Arteta…” - You mean Pep invented it and everyone else copied.
That ring structure is like Finnegans Wake. Well done.
Fullbacks were always "Super Athletic"
those coaching badges JJ's doing are really paying off
Aoi Ashito did that, plus he's a playmaker