Jon Mackenzie
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7,567 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Jon Mackenzie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The problem with Deserbi's approach is that it collapses under its own success, right?
Which is if you if you are willing to be baited up and and not defend it in the correct way, then they'll they'll take you apart.
And so what teams do is they re start refusing to take the bait or they make it harder for those central progressions to occur.
And then suddenly um Spurs will be in a situation, Nathan mentioned it, where you've got a lot of players to play one system and your opponent are forcing you to play another system where you're
you are breaking down a low block and then there's questions about the the the overall functionality of it.
And again, that swings the needle one way or another.
If if more teams are willing to just sit in against them, then it's going to be harder for them to to get the benefits of the system.
guess it it feels very much like their relegation has been confirmed in their first four games, right?
Well they ha
just say one more thing on Spurs?
Yeah.
Uh Nathan did touch on it.
I do think that the personnel stuff as well.
He talked about having big space attackers, but I also think that so much of what De Zerby's system is about is about being able to have those moments of acceleration where you're doing and we'll see this from when we talk about Villa as well.
Because actually there's the overlaps between Emery and and De Zerby are very interesting, I think, from a tactical point of view.
And you can make the argument that Villa and
Spurs both struggling at the beginning of the season is kind of interesting from the same perspective of like the the tactical systems require certain things.
But
They they need players who can receive the ball in deep build up, often in tight spaces, and then accelerate the play, find those passes through the um through the press.
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