Max Allegri's assistant says Napoli's backline dropped too deep in a second half Juventus dominated, as fresh injuries compound a season already eight points off last year's pace.
A heavy home defeat to Coventry has left Sunderland bottom of the Premier League and Régis Le Bris facing scrutiny, even as he insists the club is writing a new chapter.
A look at how the libero, man-marking and the counter-attack combined to make catenaccio the defining Italian tactical system of the 1960s.
A guide to the false nine role, how it grew out of the deep-lying forward tradition, and why pulling a centre-back out of position causes problems no orthodox striker creates.
Ipswich's Paraguayan forward is unusually willing to shoot and dribble at pace, and his equaliser against Hull showed exactly why Gary O'Neil built his attack around him.
Gegenpressing, not possession, was the organising idea behind Klopp's Mainz, Dortmund and Liverpool sides, and it shaped everything from training to trophies.
Cruyff's teams built their control of matches on a single idea: manipulate space, not just the ball, and let players rotate freely through it.
Total Football is remembered as romance. Under Rinus Michels it rested on discipline, collective pressing and a ruthless approach to space.
Sacchi's Milan replaced man-marking with a compact zonal 4-4-2 that defended as one unit and pressed high. Much of Europe spent the next decade catching up.
