A view from the Tyne:
They’re a better footballing side than us but the overall level of quality of the players is very close. Reckon Eddie will have the team snarling and ready to kick them all over, force fuck ups and nick some goals.
They remind me a bit of De Zerbi’s Brighton/Marseille.
Set traps to commit two players towards the ball and aim to use spare man to advance. That and Watkins long out ball which he likes to pin the defender wide and draw players in before finding the spare man.
Don’t really see the De Zerbi analogy. He’d far more dogmatic than Unai, and tactics are different.
