One thing that allows Zinchenko to do what he does at Arsenal is Gabriel covering behind him, effectively playing as both a LB and CB.

Zinchenko is a weird one at Arsenal, that guy's touch maps are crazy he's playing almost everywhere and an underrated skill of his is that on his feet he's quite a good defender, but I agree that Zinchenko is more of a midfield inverter, whereas Cancelo is more of a wing inverter

If you play the game Football Manager, you will know that in the Inverted Wingback Role, it divides into 3 duty, IWB-at, IWB-su, IWB-de, so while they are all inverted wingback, you can tweak them and let them tuck into in different spaces to accommodate your tactic systems (whether you want him to go further up the half space, whether you want him to tuck into midfield to support, or you want him to tuck inside into defence to form 3 cb), just like how this video suggests, great video btw!

Rico Lewis and Ivan Fresneda are the new generations of truly inverted fullbacks, others started in other roles and eventually moved into that role.

I really like Cancelo…that guy plays like a winger and I love it. He’s got the flair and everything if u allow him the free role

I like the way you break it simple like *The defensive inverted FB & *The Controller FB & *The attacking FB

What’s common among most of these players?! Pep, Pep Guardiola. Man has influenced so much of modern football. Legend 🙌🏾

The defensive IWB you described is how I expected it to play out in Football manager but it's not so far.

Incredible content. So clear and concise, great presentational structure, top analysis and nice polished visuals

Great video! About Zinchenko, I feel like he does perform as more of a controller when Arsenal are in control of the game, but he definitely becomes an attacker when they need a goal. In fact, movements that you attributed to the attacker role are what allowed The Gunners to clutch several last-minute wins this season.

This channel is fantastic. In-depth explanation with examples. Not just the surface. I would like to see more in-game examples of these plays happening, but guess copyright is an issue.

Napoli's Di Lorenzo deserves a mention here. Not strictly an inverted fullback, as he spends fair amount of time on the touchline, but he's capable of playing all the inverted roles to a fairly high degree. Tucking into a back three when Napoli's struggling to play out of the back - something he's comfortable with as he's played a centreback fair few times in his career. Sometimes tucking into midfield, usually when Anguissa is really high up or when the ball is on the opposite flank to help switch the ball quicker. Finally, his trademark, the underlapping runs into the box, from which he can score and assist. Comparing his stats to other players in the video, he's just at the tail end in progression numbers (7.03 progressive passes/90, due to low amount of touches/90 at ~70 when others are around 80-90). He's only beaten by Trent in Shot Creating Actions (3.24) and by Cancelo in Touches in Att. Pen. Area (2.42), and again only beaten by Cancelo in G+A in League and Europe (3G+6A). All of this which being really solid defensively, much better than Trent, Zinchenko or Cancelo, and being on the ball less than all the others.

Looking forward to your video about different roles of center forward position. It would be very exciting.

I just love this tactical board. I also like the other one but this is the one i would prefer

You should make a video about what went wrong for Julien naglesman at Bayern Munich tactically and transfer wise

More than informative. Perfect video, explanation and pacing.

Excellent explanation and analysis 👏🏼.

great content like always 👏👏👏

Loved this video, keep up with the good work!

Love this version of videos

Can you do a video on De Zerbi's Brighton tactics

Great analysis 🔥everything now makes sense

Another excellent piece 👌

Great stuff ❤

Thank you for this explanation

Lovely video🙏🏾

Outstanding presentation.

Inverted fullbacks are one of my favorite tactics, if we can call them that.

Great video, please a video on how tuchel will adopt his tactics into Bayern . I wonder how they are gonna play maybe he uses kimmich as a Controlling inverted wing back and Jamal alongside Goretzka in his 3-4-3 system?

Need that Thomas tuchul Bayern tactics video bro !

Lovely stuff!

Very good explanation !!!!

Love your channel

Great analysis

Love the new intro

I’d love to see more of these kinds of videos

Adding these to my FM saves

will you be doing a video on how tuchel will setup Bayern?

Amazing job

Good analysis

Brilliant video.

Good one🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is beautiful analysis

You should do an analysis video on Griezmann! The man plays almost every position for France and Atletico

Hi brilliant analysis! May I know what software you use for the tactical/formation board with animations please?

Sergi Roberto has certainly played all this inverted fullbacks role, although not to perfection.

Do you think Alphonso Davies is molding a new style of fullback where speed and passing is better than defending? Not that Davies hasn't developed incredible defensive instincts, but his speed allows Bayern to have an extra attacker (that is developing into an impressive passer), who has the ability to recover defensively from an extremely advanced position. He's just as much a wingback as a fullback purely due to his speed.

I love how Pep "chop and changes" himself out of the Champions League season after season - even going back to his time at Barcelona, where he used to do wacky things, like chase after another away goal against Inter at the San Siro in 2010 when he could have played defensive passing football with the most capable passing team ever assembled. Just a tinkerman through and through.

Amazing insight as always mate! Any chance we'll be seeing the evolution of Harry Kane's game anytime soon? (Think this is the best time for this vid with all the attention on him)

wow, very informative

perfectly summed

Can we keep the old tactical board for analysis? For some reason it just makes it easier to understand what happened in the match

A video on salary cap and how it is killing Spanish clubs and it’s outcomes on other leagues !!

Personally feel it's a bit rudimentary to just label someone like Ben White as a "defensive inverted FB" considering all the overlapping work he does with Saka and Odegaard. Tomiyasu may fit this role better if you're looking at Arsenal particularly

Subscribed :)

Such an informative video. Do you think that Camavinga can be a good controlling inverted fullback? He looks like he has all the qualities to play that role as he tucks in alongside Tchouameni.

Now it's already changed, as Stones steps up from cb to play that role. Football moves fast!

Bro can u break down England Vs Italy? The game was a tactical madness, both half’s were completely different

nice vid

Y’all gotta talk about Alejandro Balde. Dude is blowing up as we speak. Hype is real!

Can you please do the different roles for Wingers or Midfielders

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More football fans need to watch this tactical role breakdown

Dani alves is one of the most players i like . He played very well at the inverted fullback role so he shows attacking and defensing performance all the match like what he did with messi busquets....

this is the best version of fullbacks in the history special thanks to Pep Guardiola on make the world believe that it can work

Defensive inverted fullbacks can also be traditional overplaying attacking FBs too. Aka Walker and Alaba. They work really well when you have a left and the right of that same archetype.

Jorge Jesus uses Lincoln Henrique and Ferdi Kadioglu as controlling iwb's at Fenerbahce. Kadioglu who can play almost anywhere on the pitch, can be a great mid-term project for a top european club and Lincoln was desired by Porto last summer, sadly suffered a torn acl against Sevilla. Two players that should have eyes on them imo.

The thing I don’t understand is city played well last season with Cancelo and Walker as there fullbacks but it didn’t work this season. Hence causing the change to incorporate Rico Lewis. But Zinchenko wasn’t a starter for them last season anyway so why was Cancelo being too attacking for them a problem now, is it because of Haaland not dropping deep or something?

There is a Manager between that glued Crujff and Pep Guardiola tactics. Sir Alex Ferguson.

The lb or rb are very important, Cause they were massievly underused. Indvidualy they were used, but in terms of position being used was missing. Cus defending when losing ball should be like a whole team think and lines of player thing. And not like sit ready thing. It is a risky thing but 1 that should have taken care of decades ago.

Luke Shaw belongs to the attacking inverter group. He's one of the best on his day.

Before watching this video I didn't understand why Arteta doesn't play Tierney. Now I understand Zinchenko overloads the midfield while Tierney overloads the wing. And Arteta wants an extra midfielder not an extra winger.

Remember mentioning this to a friend that the experiment to invert Walker as a controller failed miserably 🤭 Rico Lewis did well against the lesser teams, it was against the big teams with better forwards where he struggled.

Very important one, although there were still fullbacks very important withoutbeing inverted like tripper and estupinian

Watching this kind of videos and others tactical analysis from the likes of De Zerbi, Potter and Arteta I keep wondering why Real Madrid is still such an ''old minded'' club tactically. Players like Nacho could be a great Defensive Inverted FB and Alaba or Camavinga would fit into the Controller/playmaker FB, but they keep stitching them to the lines like classic fullbacks.

I love football tactics

5:18, if you play efootball you know that fullback finishers play like this. They dominate the half spaces and can even be in CAM positions.

I know the video was made earlier, but look at John stones now. Thats a whole new role😂

With the way things are going all the 11 players in the pitch might be attackers in the future 😂

Damn and i thought Cancelo was probably the only inverted fullback. It may just be because I don't have much football knowledge but its the 1st time I heard about "inverted fullback" when pep started using Cancelo as one.

Marcelo was the best case i have seen in last 8-10 years in terms of attacking and defending now all those podcast,reels, twitter kids will reply as if they know everything from a Tik tok type content

Upload about new pep strategy with stons

And now Stones is playing the role

I actually hate the term "football has evolved". I'm not against the idea, and in many things of course it has, but often times we just tend to look at what the best teams in the world are doing and proclaim that everything else is outdated. For example, in the beginning of the video you say fullbacks used to sit deep and manage counterattacks but that has changed, then you talk about Kyle Walker doing exactly that. Also, what's really interesting is that City's shape that transforms into 3 CBs and 2 pivots looks like any 3-4-3 double pivot, for example - Mourinho's Roma - a manager often falsely described as outdated. It's just that instead of an inverted fullback going pivot - he just has 2 pivots in Cristante and Matic who are excellent at controlling spaces and breaking lines. Also going back I doubt that players like Roberto Carlos, or more recently Marcelo were just limited to up and down fullback roles, considering their technicality. But don't get me wrong, I don't mean to sound patronizing, your videos are 97% gold and I enjoyed this one as well. Keep up the great work!

My guy said there’s a lot of overlap at 6:16 😂

This is a Lewis Cole appreciation video 😂

The team with the best fully backs always do well

Both Arsenal and mancity now having two player with 2 different kind of inverted FB?? Wow, that explained how they dominating the league

Folks tend to forget Zinny started as a CM and was forced into the fullback role at city due to their outstanding talent. A very natural role for him to play.

Please upload Messi's video of Argentina tactical evolution

i really enjoyed this video but calling Ben White limited on the ball is almost an insult

can you do a video on how to exploit the the inverted fullback formation? tactically i hardly see them being “outplayed”. i know spurs are good at beating man city but they’ve been destroyed by arsenal with this inverted fullback system. how do you truly outplay them?

I'm not a city fan, so does anyone know which game bernardo played lb? Curious to see the starting xi

Need to change it to inverted CB! Johnny, Johnny Stones

Would really appreciate more of these generic tactical videos rather than analysis of specific matches

what is the difference between 2-3 build up and 3-2 build up?

Now John Stones is being the controller

where does Reece James stand from this?

We want analysis for Ralf's Austria tactics

Pep won the CL with 4 center backs 😅