This is how Pochettino's Real Madrid would play: Bielsa and high pressure

Madrid continues to debate between the taste for a contrasted coach to replace Zidane such as Mauricio Pellegrini, with the problem of remaining under contract, or the inexperienced option as a technician who is Raúl, but vigorous and that it follows the formula that was used with Zizou with success. But how does Pochettino play and how could he adapt his style to Madrid?

The most influential figure in Mauricio Pochettino's career (Murphy, Argentina, 49 years old) is Marcelo Bielsa, although Poche never refers to himself as the Loco's disciple trainer. “Marcelo has given me a lot of experience for the many years that I have lived with him, but I was trained in Spain and among my teachers was Xabier Azkargorta“, he explained last year in AFP.

Be that as it may, the style bielista acquired a fondness for a diamond-structured midfield. Another of Pochettino's hallmarks begins above: his Tottenham was the team that exerted the most high pressure in the entire Premier in his first two seasons there.

A 4-2-3-1 as a starting point

It is the system that Pochettino likes the most from his stage in the Premier and the one he began to use at PSG until He saw how he could connect Neymar to his game. He likes very long sides, with Kurzawa in goals like the one at Camp Nou being an extreme to enter like a dagger surprising when the play was loaded by the opposite band, the right. That reference of Harry kane in the 4-2-3-1 it is very helped by Dele Alli's presence from behind. He likes the figure of the ten, which by the way in Madrid is in disuse. The closest thing could be Odegaard.

In attack, PSG sometimes seems more like a 4-2-2-2 to allow those vertiginous rises of the wings, con Neymar and Mbappé coming down to help generate play.

PSG has been his last stop, but he is a coach forged in England (first in the Southampton) and with his family very established in London (your son Maurizio militates in the subsidiary of Watford), its kryptonite is Klopp. Of eleven duels, only one won against the German and had to suffer that defeat in the 2019 Champions League final at the Wanda Metropolitano. Because titles, he only has two and with PSG: the French Super Cup (2020) and the last Cup of the neighboring country.