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How matches are actually won, explained with the data.

Illustration for the Tactics article “How Troy Parrott's role shapes Ireland's answer to Austria's press”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing an empty training ground at dawn with cones and markers laid out, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
How Troy Parrott's role shapes Ireland's answer to Austria's press

When a side presses high, its opponent's centre-forward becomes the way out: the player…

2 Oct 2026 · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “A viewer's guide to reading the Greece–Netherlands tactical match-up”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing a scene illustrating the subject of the article, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
A viewer's guide to reading the Greece–Netherlands tactical match-up

To analyse Greece against the Netherlands, work out what each side does with the ball,…

2 Oct 2026 · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “Denmark v Portugal: the international fixture and its tactical shape”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing an empty training ground at dawn with cones and markers laid out, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
Denmark v Portugal: the international fixture and its tactical shape

Denmark against Portugal is a meeting of two European national teams, usually in UEFA…

2 Oct 2026 · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “Pressing, the half-spaces and the box: Wales against Norway”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing an empty training ground at dawn with cones and markers laid out, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
Pressing, the half-spaces and the box: Wales against Norway

Wales against Norway pits a side that wants to press and keep the ball against one built…

2 Oct 2026 · Tom Whitfield