275 Episodes

  1. Mailbag: PL experience in January and left-footed centre-mids

    Published: 1/9/2025
  2. Festive Football Tactical Notebook

    Published: 1/2/2025
  3. 2024 tactical trends

    Published: 12/19/2024
  4. The Premier League’s overachievers

    Published: 12/12/2024
  5. How to manage leads and dangerous scorelines

    Published: 12/5/2024
  6. Liverpool vs Man City: Where the game will be won

    Published: 11/28/2024
  7. How do teams cope without their star players?

    Published: 11/21/2024
  8. Back Three Formations

    Published: 11/7/2024
  9. Hansi Flick’s brave Barcelona

    Published: 10/31/2024
  10. Have Liverpool evolved under Arne Slot?

    Published: 10/24/2024
  11. Assessing the promoted teams' survival chances

    Published: 10/10/2024
  12. Can managers succeed without a team of stars?

    Published: 10/3/2024
  13. Mailbag: Angeball 2.0, the new No.10s & tactical revolutions

    Published: 9/26/2024
  14. Has data’s impact on football been overstated?

    Published: 9/19/2024
  15. Salah the elite creator: how players evolve over time

    Published: 9/5/2024
  16. How to build a Premier League squad

    Published: 8/29/2024
  17. What the Premier League's opening weekend didn't tell us

    Published: 8/22/2024
  18. Tactical Premier League preview - part two

    Published: 8/15/2024
  19. Tactical Premier League preview - part one

    Published: 8/8/2024
  20. Why were there so many goals this season?

    Published: 5/23/2024

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Hosted by Michael Bailey, revered football tactics writer Michael Cox is joined by Mark Carey, Liam Tharme and more of The Athletic's brightest tactics and data department to break down the tactical and technical details behind the biggest footballing stories each week - assessing the latest trends, systems, players, managers and all manner of statistics in order to give you a deeper understanding of the game. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.