MÁS Positional

Thomas Tuchel, speaking after the match against New Zealand, said he was much more satisfied with his team’s second-half performance. According to him, the team played more within their positions and moved the ball with greater speed, unlike in the first half, when players were often out of position and there was a bit more “freestyle” football.

His comments highlight the importance that coaches like Tuchel place on positional structure and on the order created through proper spacing and distances between players. It is a way of fostering attacking interactions through a clear plan and a well-defined organisation.

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Catanzaro under Alberto Aquilani continues to offer tactical insights that lead us to reflect on the complexity of the game and on how it can be controlled, while at the same time opening itself up to the game’s intrinsic uncertainty, which no longer becomes merely a negative factor to be reduced, but rather an opportunity to be seized.

In the search for advantage, Catanzaro adopts a dynamic occupation of space through positional rotations, overlapping runs, and forward projections (see Cassandro in the action leading to the goal): a strategic approach that combines functions and positions, starting from a structure designed to reduce uncertainty before attempting to exploit the opportunities that uncertainty itself can offer.