Why Morocco Could Spark a Tactical Revolution

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When observing the evolution of football tactics, there’s always a constant shift from one philosophy to another. The unpredictability of the WM formation made for some beautiful offensive football in the 1950s, before meeting its match with the rise of the extremely defensive mentality of the Catenaccio in the 1960. The Focus shifted once again in the 70s with Dutch total football, that was able to easily exploit spaces left by these outdated systems. But as teams grew wary of these intricate movements, it in turn led to the development of zonal marking, with managers such as Arrigo sacchi taking AC Milan to new highs in the 1980s, ensuring that dangerous spaces were covered, meaning all these fancy rotations couldn’t easily create gaps.
The constant back and forth from offensive to defensive tactics has shaped the game for all its existence, and there’s reason to believe we might be at a tipping point in the next few years.
The past decade has been dominated by possession football, with managers such as pep Guardiola being regarded as one of the greatest ever with his heavy inspiration on Cruyffs total football, Taking it to new levels with constant possession and intricate passing moves to disrupt the opposition. But if the Qatar world cup has shown us anything, its that a well organised defensive system can make any team incredibly dangerous, and there’s no better example than Regragui’s Morocco.
Morocco may not have made the world cup final, but their run into the semifinal was nothing short of spectacular, knocking out Belgium, Spain and Portugal, before putting up and incredibly entertaining display against France. But what important to note is that they made it that far with only 32% possession and while conceding only 1 goal (excluding semifinal), the second lowest in the competition behind costa rica. So how can a team that never has the ball be so dangerous? And what does this tell us about how tactics could be shifting. Lets take a look.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:23 Morocco's World Cup
01:52 The Tactics
04:04 The Consequence
06:08 The Start of Something New?