The art of possession football today, however ... of an opposition’s slip-up or shoddy move to try and engineer a counter-attack, some, like the exhilarating Romanian side of USA ’94, base ...

“Counter-attack is a fantastic item of football, an ammunition that you have, and when you find your opponent unbalanced you have a fantastic moment to score a goal,” he added. There are few ...

That for us isn’t our football.” Advertisement This tallies ... penalty area within 15 seconds — in other words, a counter-attack. Chelsea’s rate of 4.3 direct attacks per 90 in the ...

With Vinícius and Valverde in 2022, Real Madrid averaged 12 seconds per counter-attack. Coaches adapt, evolve. But deep down, every tactic begins with a belief—a fingerprint of football philosophy.

United can’t win because they can’t score goals, and they can’t score goals because their attack is currently built around counterattacks, and this team stinks at counter-attacking.