What are soccer tactics? When I watch a match it just seems like

>>74037098
>tactics

Choosing the correct time to dive

>>74037098
>tactics
>premier league


There's your problem.

>>74037160
Enlighten me Luigi

>>74037098
Tactics on football is very different from American Football were every play they return to the initial position. Each player has a position, but they are able to move everywhere at their discretion, even Goalkeepers. Players have responsibilities on defense and offense.

Is really kind of hard to explain if you have never played football before

>>74037436
I understand that they don't stick to one specific area the whole time, and they have a general formation they follow but how does playing a specific formation give a team an advantage?

>>74037160
OP should just watch the Chelsea vs. Arsenal match this week. Study the formations, how the players organize positionally and also move together in defence and how the formation changes going forward. Watch who covers for whom during transitions of play. Watch for trends going forward. Are they playing narrow or wide and how does this relate to the oppositions defense? Are there a lot of overlapping runs, one-twos, through balls, etc. Does someone make runs to pull the defense away from the striker? Does the striker make runs behind the defense or across the field to create space for the midfielders to operate above the opposition's back line? Etc. Etc. It's a free-flowing game so it's not as rigidly tactical as American football for instance. But the best tacticians have separate themselves from the mediocre managers and have their day. Mourinho was a good example, lately it's been Conte. Hint: there is an illustrative contrast in this match, which is why it's a good and timely example.

>>74037531
Is not as much as this formation defeats this other but how the players skills and coordination enables a team to use that formation to win.

I'm not really an expert, you should check the wikipedia or something, that could clear things

>>74037531
fluid and rigid formations are part of the tactics. Lower league teams especially have a strict 4 defender back line, 4 midfielders, and 2 front men. The period of time we are going through is one of very fluid positions so its harder to see where the formations are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football_tactics_and_skills

here's a good starting point

>>74037160

There's very little. Managing a soccer team depends 99% on the quality of players you have since you don't actually setup plays or anything. You just yell at them to move to a side of the field if they aren't paying attention.

>>74037098
Football is 51% skills and 49% tactics

With the right tactics an objectively worse team can win vs a better team on any given day

Some teams even train their players specifically for a certain system, like the Italians with catenaccio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenaccio or Spain/Barcelona with tiki-taka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki-taka

I'm too lazy to give you more details, but just look here for some famous football systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Association_football_tactics_and_skills

>>74037098
why don't you just whatch a couple of videos on youtube which are really easy to find instead of creating these faggot threads?

>>74039194
Because this is a shitpost.

>>74037098
>only watch the premier league btw
there's your problem...
Watch Man City and Chelsea for tactics, the others for lulz.