On this episode, Joey Cascio joins me to discuss the recent Clasico.

We did not break this down as we would normally do for a USMNT game. Instead, we decided to discuss some fundamentals, and also some special moments, and we used examples from the match to highlight those specific actions/concepts.

To name a few…

Why did we decide to do this?

Because we feel like it’s important that people start watching and discussing the game differently. And these are actions that are easy to highlight and can tell us a lot about a specific player, or a specific play.

And so many more questions could be asked…

The game can be more exciting when you (understand and) zoom in on the details instead of just watching as a fan from 30,000 feet above.

Of course, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the spectacle that is El Clasico. It’s also easy to say this was a bad game because it ended 0-0. It’s easy to say this didn’t provide the same level of drama as years past. But when you zoom in and inspect the individual actions and the quality of the twenty-players on the field – you start to see something very, very different.

Here are some examples from the match that we discussed during the episode:

Excellent example of losing your man from Suarez before receiving the ball from Ter Stegen.

The awareness of both players here is unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/sGUogOsNLi

John Pranjić (@ThatCroatianGuy) December 19, 2019

-Bale does a good job of denying path to Alba here

John Pranjić (@ThatCroatianGuy) December 19, 2019

You can head over to our Twitter feeds to see more tactical analysis, videos, and photo examples.

The plan is to continue with these types of episodes. We hope you enjoy them. Please feel free to send us your feedback.

Joey is @cascio_fg

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