How to coach Big Ange's counter-press, Nigel Clough's tactical plan for promotion revealed, corners and the second wave + how Baraja fixed Valencia

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Tottenham won again last night to return to the top of the Premier League - their counter-pressing approach has played a big part in their early-season success and Kevin Martin explains how you can coach it.

Mansfield Town seem to have found the League Two winning formula this season and Jack Manship explains what Nigel Clough has devised for yet another promotion push.

In his weekly set-piece column, Karim El-Shesheiny looks at how teams can better exploit the second wave and then how teams can defend it.

ICYMI yesterday, Maxime D'Ornano's Rouen are Championnat National promotion contenders and?Fintan O'Reilly?explained why in his weekly column.

Fiorentina Women have made a surprising unbeaten start to their Serie A season -?Selim Ben Hmida?explained their tactical approach.

As we saw again at the weekend, teams are adapting to Brighton by using a diamond pressing shape - Andrew Hanna explained how RDZ needs to fix this in his TFA debut piece.

Beth Limb scouted two of Iceland's best U19 players in her weekly?EYEBALL?article.

Vivianne Miedema returned after almost a year out of action as Arsenal earned a 2-1 victory over Bristol City this past weekend — remind yourselves of what makes her such a complete forward with our 2019 scout report.

Former USWNT boss Vlatko Andonovski has been appointed the new manager of Kansas City Current in the NWSL. We analysed how the 47 y/o coach set his USA team up for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

After beating Cadiz 2-0 last night, Valencia now sit eighth in LaLiga. We analysed how coach Rubén Baraja stopped the club from free fall on arrival.

Lyon sit dead last in Ligue 1 nine games into the season, still searching for their first win of the campaign. We analysed their struggles under Laurent Blanc at the beginning of the campaign, do any of those issues persist under new head coach Fabio Grosso?

And that's it for today - we'll be back tomorrow with more pieces old and new about everything analysis in the football world.

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