Erling Braut Haaland has continued his world-class goalscoring form in 2021. The 20-year-old has 23 goals and six assists from 23 appearances for Dortmund this season despite a muscle injury setback in late 2020. Haaland remains a shining light for BVB and his form reads eight goals and three assists in nine games in all…
Olivier Giroud’s career is a showreel of coming back from adversity and shutting down the doubters. In typical fashion, The World Cup winner delivered yet another defiant performance for Chelsea away to Sevilla in the Champions League. Giroud missed a gilt-edged opportunity that could have won the game against Spurs, but responded with four goals…
Chelsea’s defensive problems are well documented; 54 goals shipped in the league (a goal every 63 minutes), and another 16 in the Champions League. As evaluated in the first part of our analysis, the bigger problem lies in the structuring of the team; the way they press, the compactness, and the overall tactical organization of…
