{"id":769081,"date":"2026-09-13T06:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769081\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T06:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:26:19","slug":"manchester-derby-fixed-v-fluid-opposite-approaches-maresca-and-carrick-are-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769081\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester derby: Fixed v fluid &#8211; opposite approaches Maresca and Carrick are taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maresca sees freedom differently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If the freedom for you is that you can move everywhere, that is not freedom, that is chaos,&#8221; he told Sky Sports last September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Our] freedom? You can do what you want in the position you receive the ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a>&#8216;s starting XI occupy specific zones on the pitch in their 3-2-5 or 3-1-3-3 shape on the ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This makes their approach more predictable for opponents but it means that City&#8217;s players know each player&#8217;s role, where they are likely to be positioned and how they are likely to move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After City&#8217;s win against Coventry, Maresca said that Iliman Ndiaye had had minimal training time and explained that meant sometimes &#8220;he was moving in the wrong way [into the] wrong position&#8221; for how City intend to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The advantage of this more fixed style is that, even if opponents know what is coming, the speed of execution can still make it difficult to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also, less spontaneous thinking is required to unlock a defence as solutions are set out by their manager and drilled through repetition over a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maresca sees freedom differently. &#8220;If the freedom for you is that you can move everywhere, that is not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}