Patterns of play, tactical approaches and theoretical concepts in football - Explained and visualised.

•Phases Of Play
•In possession
•Out of possession

Thread (Part 1)⬇️

•Phases Of Play
•Half-Space
🔴In Possession
•Hold-Up Play
•Third-Man Movement
•Half-Turn
•Double-Movement
•Individual Press-Resistance
•Blindside Movement
•Up, Back, Through
•Overload
•Rest-Defence
•Between The Lines
•Breaking The Lines
•Inverted Fullback
🔴Out Of Possession
•Defensive Block
•Recovery Limit
•Defensive Funnel
•Cover Shadow
•Line Flexibility
Thank you to everyone who shared, liked and interacted with my previous thread on formations in football. If you found any value in this thread, all shares would go a long way. Part 2 will be coming in the future.
Thread on formations can be found here:
https://t.co/LOkkuupgUm

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Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

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735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices

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The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.