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Nimreitz
01-10-2011, 08:28:AM
I come across a lot of great articles about tactics, and I'm sure most of you guys do too. I doubt we read all of the same stuff. So here, if you come across a good article on tactics, post it in here and provide a link. If it's in another language, post a link to the google translate to English. It won't be perfect, but it will do. The best running column on this that I know, aside from the formerly great ZonalMarking.net which has fallen into a rut of bland match reports, is Jonathan Wilson's The Question (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/series/the-question) on The Guardian football site.

The Evolution of Javier Pastore (http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/7038113/psg-javier-pastore-kind-talented-footballer-romantics-want-succeed-michael-cox-soccer)

So if players who can only play in the center are suffering, as are those who can only play on the flanks, what is the role of today's attacking midfielders? They simply have to be capable of roaming laterally. The continent's best creative midfielders -- Andres Iniesta, Mesut Ozil, David Silva, Wesley Sneijder, Juan Mata and Santi Cazorla -- can do that comfortably.

Uses Pastore's performance in PSG's 2-0 loss to Bilbao to highlight a broader point about the modern #10.