{"id":605422,"date":"2026-04-15T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605422\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:04:08","slug":"is-vincent-kompany-providing-a-glimpse-into-football-after-pep-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605422\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Vincent Kompany providing a glimpse into football after Pep Guardiola?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been concerns among fans this season that the game&#8217;s top teams, faced with stubborn man-to-man defensive set-ups, are taking a less risky approach in attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Kompany&#8217;s Bayern lean into that risk, playing freely both in and out of possession. They often dominate, and are exciting to watch &#8211; an approach that involves all 11 players and starts right from the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the Champions League last 16, Bayern faced an Atalanta side who opted to man-mark across the pitch. So Kompany rotated his players around, dragging opposition defenders out of position. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For instance, attacking midfielder Serge Gnabry frequently dropped into centre-back positions to get on the ball. His Atalanta marker followed him. That opened up space for Gnabry&#8217;s team-mates. As a result, Atalanta ended up with attackers in defence and defenders in attack. Bayern Munich won 10-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Juventus head coach Luciano Spalletti was particularly impressed, noting Bayern&#8217;s fluidity. In his words: &#8220;They showed us a whole encyclopedia of movement and positioning in football.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been concerns among fans this season that the game&#8217;s top teams, faced with stubborn man-to-man defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-605422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}