Set-pieces analysis: Gianni Vio.. The banker who has created 4,830 set-piece routines in football
Coaching is increasingly specialised, with teams such as Tottenham and Brentford reaping the benefits of perfecting their set pieces, and here we are aiming to speak about the Italian Gianni Vio with Spurs.
In modern football, a lot of tactics had improved to find new options to score goals, with extra tricks, after that open play has been tough with a huge defensive tactical approach.
In this tactical analysis, we will take a look at some of Gianni's ideas in set pieces.
Debut for Gianni Vio
Vio’s impact appeared quickly with his debut against Southampton, where Tottenham scored a goal from following up after a corner-kick with a very organized shape.
In the first match, we saw the out-swinging corner kicks taken by Son-Heung-Min from the right, and in-swinging from the left by the same player, or Kulusevski played it out.
Spurs split 7 players ... 4 Players on the near post...... 3 on the Far post, a player stays wide like Dier in that case.
As shown in the last tactical board, we could see the illustration of structure, the first group on the near post (four players), one is moving vertical to the cross in the flick zone (the space before the post). One goes to the post and the others go to the six-yard box.
Whereas the other group on the far post, one of them drops back for the second ball and one of them stays in his position, while the third one goes for the space behind the defenders.
Eric Dier, who was near to Son, went to the edge of the box, where both of them dropped back.
Another corner-kick in the same match, from the other side, with the same idea. The in-swinging cross is played in by Son, to the near post again.
The South Korean secured the second ball and crossed it again to the near post towards Eric Dier, who scored a goal.
In-swinging Crosses against Chelsea
Coach Gianni Vio has a lot of ideas, without a doubt, and we could take a look at them in the London derby versus Chelsea.
Ivan Perišić can deliver the ball with his both feet. In this game against Chelsea, he takes responsibility. He is very accurate and took it to the near post again.
Here we will see in-swinging crosses for Tottenham, 6 defenders vs 5 players from Spurs with a delay from Moura, and crossing to the near-post towards Davies.
Dier distracts Loftus-Cheek to let Davies move to the space. Meanwhile, Chelsea narrows the distance between 4 players and the goalkeeper, with a mixed system between man-to-man and zonal defense.
Vio’s routines usually aim to create an element of uncertainty among defences. This is often brought about by players exchanging positions just before the kick is taken. Another of his favoured moves is for the attacking side to build their own walls at free-kicks, often taking up an offside position before dispersing, causing confusion amongst the defence.
Kane takes advantage of the defence’s preoccupation with Dier and Davis who are focused on distracting the markers from Harry, who scored the equaliser.
Player to flick zone with back-pass
Gianni's ideas didn’t stop on that stand, he showcased a lot of resilience at taking corner kicks, and we could see some new options where the Spurs got the points against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
With the opposition defending in a man-marking system, timing is the main aspect to exploit the space when in-swinging balls by Son and Perišić are played into the near post.
Perisic is at the near post, Kane is at the far post and 8 players from Wolves vs 6 from Spurs in the box, with man-marking system from Wolves. Bentancur & Kulusevski are guarding the edge of the box.
Spurs always try to use the space on the near side and players flick the ball there. However, if the ball is flicked with less power than necessary, it will move away from the goal. In order to tap or head this kind of ball in.
Here we could get Perisic flicking the ball on to the far post, where Harry Kane, goes for the blindside, at the perfect time to find the space behind the defender and scores the goal.
Throwback to Euro2020
Gianni Vio showed his work clearly and distinctly to Antonio Conte in Italy, the Euro 2020, when the team scored many goals during the tournament with clever work on set pieces.
When Vio was doing his coaching badges, he wrote a thesis called Set pieces: the 15-goal striker, which later influenced the book That Extra 30 Per Cent.
At Euro, we saw some simple and intelligent situations, for example against Turkey, Italy tried 2vs1 on the near-post, one of them started in an offside position, and while the cross came, he dropped back.
Here is the style against Switzerland. Play the ball to the near post, and the player runs across the front of the first opposition defender.
The defender noticed and clears the ball before the Italian player gets to it.
It was repeated in Italy's only goal against Wales, with two players on the edge of the eighteen-yard box, and a player on the far post to force a player from Wales to break the offside trap, facilitating the process of Matteo Pessina's move.
Conclusion
"You need to analyse the players you have and find solutions which are tailor-made to their skillset," he said.
"There are players whose reading of the game is special. At the highest level, Sergio Ramos comes to mind. Wherever you put the ball, you can bet he’ll find a way to get on the end of it. Timing is the most important thing when it comes to finishing off a set-piece."
Those were quotes by Gianni Vio, who has 4,830 routines in set-pieces and pushes them simply in the team where he works Spurs, Spurs could secure some points such as in the game against Wolves or Chelsea, so Vio could successfully make an impact. Let’s see the rest of the season and the opponent’s tactics to prevent those ideas.
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