Olympique de Marseille have recruited Gennaro Gattuso to replace Marcelino. Valentin Pauluzzi, correspondent for the L’Equipe Channel in Italy, explains that the coach is not entirely what one might think of him in terms of play!
Gennaro Gattuso is the new coach of theOlympic Marseille. Pablo Longoria Did he make this choice by default since there is no one else available at the moment? The Italian coach has the reputation of a man who plays a lot on his personality and little on offensive tactics… For Valentin Pauluzzicorrespondent in Italy for the L’Equipe channelthis description doesn’t really fit his person.
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Italian defensive coaches no longer exist in 2023. We have to get away from these clichés
“I think he was somewhat condemned to demonstrate the opposite, almost everywhere he went, by wanting to implement an enterprising, offensive, ambitious style of play. So, already, Italian defensive coaches no longer exist in 2023. We have to get away from these clichés. We evacuate that directly. He is also not an ultra offensive coach because the Italian school is the school of balanced coaches, recalls the correspondent of the Channel L’Equipe. Even guys like Gasperini. It’s interesting what is being offered to Milan in a turbulent context. With a change of ownership, a change of manager. In Naples, it was even more so. Milan and Napoli are historically clubs with a demanding public in terms of quality of play. This is less the case for example at Inter or Juve. Its playing identity quite defined, we are on a 4-3-3 or even 4-2-3-1: Construction of the rear, defensive phase well organized obviously in 6 a metronome in front of the defense. It was Biglia at Milan, it was Diego Demme at Napoli. But it is creative, the game goes a lot through the sides, what we call side chains in Italian. At Milan, it was Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Suso. At Naples, Insigne and Lozano. His experience at Napoli is the most recent and there was a better context to work in and there was really interesting offensive production. Playing its only full season in 2021 2021, its Napoli were third in terms of possession, third best attack, second in terms of progressive passes, i.e. forward passes, first in shots attempted and at each Once, the other teams who occupied this ranking were Juve and Sarri, Atalanta from Gasperini, Sassuolo from De Zerbi, we are talking about coaches who are really references in terms of quality of play.
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