Rafa's Tactics Revealed

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Revealed: Rafa's Chelsea secrets... tactics sheets from Club World Cup final found discarded in dressing room (and can they now help Leeds pull off a cup shock?)

By JOHN DRAYTON
PUBLISHED: 11:19, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:11, 18 December 2012

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Here are a few scraps of paper that Neil Warnock should pay particular attention to as they may contain the secrets to beating Chelsea — or at least beating them at corners.
It is claimed these scraps of paper were rescued from the floor of Chelsea’s empty dressing room after the 1-0 defeat by Corinthians in the Club World Cup final at Yokohama’s Nissan Stadium.
They appear to show Rafa Benitez’s defensive tactics from corners and show specific instructions for key players.

Insight: This tactics sheet shows how Chelsea plan to defend corners
Globoesporte, one of the biggest sport websites in Brazil, claim one of their journalists entered the changing room after the team had left and filtered through the rubbish to find Benitez’s tactical sheets from that final.
In one sheet, which shows Chelsea defending a corner, Ashley Cole is charged with sprinting out and preventing the short corner, while Juan Mata lurks on the edge of the area to pressurise Corinthians’ Allesandro.

Offensive: A second sheet shows how Rafa Benitez wants his players to attack corners
When Benitez arrived he praised the ability of Fernando Torres to defend corners and he uses the Spanish striker as a key defensive weapon.
Each players is clearly partnered with a player to mark and there is an instruction from Benitez that reads: ‘Immediately up after we clear 1st ball.’

What a mess: It is claimed the sheets were taken from Chelsea's dressing room after they left

In the second sheet, which shows Chelsea’s tactics at their own corner, Benitez has written in giant red writing: ‘Be aware of counter attack’ as he was obviously concerned by the pace of the Brazilians on the break.
Branislav Ivanovic, David Luiz and Gary Cahill all attack a zone coloured yellow when the ball comes in, while strikers Fernando Torres and Victor Moses split in different directions to pull defenders away from the danger area.




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[gkmacca]

Just looking at the pictures ought to have confused them enough.

 

[Fabio]

It's like rafa has hired Avvy as his tactical helper

 

[Red_Water]

'BE AWARE OF COUNTER ATTACK'

Maybe someone should e-mail that tactical "analysis" to Rogers! Might stop every cunt scoring against us after we have had our 90% possession and 45 shots, most of which don't trouble the goalkeeper.

 

[gkmacca]

Yes, it should replace 'prepare for Operation Anfield' right now!

 

[Rosco]

Mind blowing stuff.

Can one of the experts break it down for me?

 

[LarryHagman]

Good job they didn't find the piece of paper with "Don't let the other team score a goal" on it. Don't want those genius secrets getting out.

 

[Ryan]

It's bog-fucking standard set-piece information.

They'd have gone over all of this in training days and weeks before, it's there as a reminder for the players. That's all. Players are fucking dumb, you've got to tell them time and time again. Hence why this shit is stuck all over the dressing room walls.

If you think pages like that form the fucking centre-piece of a manager's pre-match address, then it's pretty obvious you've never sat in a dressing room with a decent manager. He'd barely have even referenced them.

Some of you are looking for something that's not there.

 

[Dreambeliever]

It's bog-fucking standard set-piece information.

They'd have gone over all of this in training days and weeks before, it's there as a reminder for the players. That's all. Players are fucking dumb, you've got to tell them time and time again. Hence why this shit is stuck all over the dressing room walls.

If you think pages like that form the fucking centre-piece of a manager's pre-match address, then it's pretty obvious you've never sat in a dressing room with a decent manager. He'd barely have even referenced them.

Some of you are looking for something that's not there.

This

 

[the count]

It's bog-fucking standard set-piece information.

They'd have gone over all of this in training days and weeks before, it's there as a reminder for the players. That's all. Players are fucking dumb, you've got to tell them time and time again. Hence why this shit is stuck all over the dressing room walls.

If you think pages like that form the fucking centre-piece of a manager's pre-match address, then it's pretty obvious you've never sat in a dressing room with a decent manager. He'd barely have even referenced them.

Some of you are looking for something that's not there.

This

Oh, FFS.
Get a room you two

 

[refugee]

FAKE......that's not zonal marking

 

[juniormember]

FAKE......that's not zonal marking

Something pundits have always ignored.
Rafa always had guys zonally in front of goal, but had guys man marking towards the edge of the penalty area. The critical areas therefore never end up with players dragged out of position. And we had the best defensive record in the league from set pieces for ages, all the while 'experts' were going on and on about Rafa's zonal marking being a detriment to the club.