Martin Raphael

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The 3rd Circle · Episode 9: Communication & CryptoTactics · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

Usually it's getting close, so we play a lot on the outside.

This is a handball football.

And then you can see that the defenses are also...

That the defenses are also not really covering the middle very well anymore.

So they just leave the players there because they know, okay, the space is condensed enough that the opponent will not play here, they will switch to the other side, so we are already shifting to the other side.

And then obviously you lose a little bit of that advantage when you play outside and the opponent's already shifting there.

Then this is a lesser advantage than when the opponent's really focused on defending the middle and only then they move on.

So this was a little bit like the difference between Leverkusen and other possession teams that...

that leverkusen on the shabby alonso they were threatening the center all the time and the the opponents really had to be on their toes to stop them from just playing through the center and because of that when they were playing wide they had they had so much space there um that it was like it was more advantageous situation on the wing on the wings than other teams had

We had this quote before in the episode where we touched about dribbling.

Well, there we go.

Yeah, clarity also creates predictability.

It's an upside and a downside at the same time.

And it's really an interesting... I think what we really need to think about is how can we ourselves be less predictable without becoming...

without chaos breaking out.

That's why every club has analysts now, which was not the case in the past.

But the task of the analyst is basically decrypt the communication of the opponent.

Busquets was popular for that, for playing these passes into Messi when he turns his body outside and it looks like he's playing to the fullback and then he hits it through.

Also Mbappé is finishing his classical one where he opens the hip.

It looks like he's going to shoot towards the right corner and then he hits it very, very strongly just into the near post corner.

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