DOMINATE POSSESSION WITH DEL BOSQUE'S SPAIN 2012 TACTIC

Hi guys, today I bring you back to 2012 when Spain won its last Euro Cup, the second in a row after the 2008 Euro Cup won under Luis Aragones. Besides, in 2010 Spain won the World Cup too. It's true that in those years Spain benefited of Barcelona's success under Pep Guardiola and that many of Spain national team players were Barcelona stars (Iniesta, Jordi Alba,Pique、Fabregas, Xavi) and the other players came from Real Madrid (Sergio Ramos, Raul Albiol, Xabi Alonso) and other main teams like Chelsea (Torres), but we can't neglect the coach's importance. Since the main forward, Fernando Torres, was not playing very well, Del Bosque (who had already won everything as Real Madrid Coach, including the last Champions League won by the blancos before the Ancelotti era) decided to try something different and to adjust his tactic and playing style to adapt it to the players he had there. This is how he created a strikerless tactic that we can call 4-6-0 or a 4-3-3 with false 9. I created two tactics, one without any strikers and a narrow three attacking midfielder line and the other with two wingers (with the AP role) and one single striker with the false 9 role, that was Fabregas role. In the first one you will see that narrow attacking midfielder line that was made by Iniesta, Fabregas and David Silva. In the second one, David Silva and Iniesta play as wingers but still with the AP role because they did not exploit the flanks, they created density iand kept possession n the central area just in front of the opponent's box creating overloads. In the first tactic, Fabregas role is a Shadow striker because this way he can move vertically forward to the box and receive vertical passes from his mates, at the beginning, I wanted to use the SS role for all the three attacking midfielders but after some tries, I decided not to do it because using the same roles (2-3 players with the same role in the same line) will break the game and I do not want to use any cheat tricks when I do my tactics.