Manchester City had done their homework on Jorginho as they prepared to buy him from Napoli last summer.
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It appeared a major blow when Chelsea took advantage of the failure of the clubs to reach an agreement and swooped for both the midfielder and former Napoli manager Maurizio Sarri.
But while Pep Guardiola was confident Jorginho could be a ready-made successor for Fernandinho , the Italian was not without his faults. As he lined up in a darker shade of Blue for the Community Shield in August, the star was unaware that City had already identified a weakness in his game and trained on exactly how to punish it.
Speaking at the Performance Analysis and New Developments in Football conference in Madrid this week , the club's video analyst Carles Planchart explained the process.
Having clocked that Jorginho was prone to being drawn forward and losing his position when the opposition had the ball in defence, he then showed City practising how to take advantage of this scenario in training as they prepared for the Community Shield game before moving onto the match itself.
As Fernandinho drops deep to form a passing triangle with John Stones and Aymeric Laporte in the 13th minute, Jorginho chases the ball and ends up caught almost midway between Laporte and Bernardo Silva in the centre-circle, who collects a pass from the Frenchman, turns, and passes it on to Phil Foden in space to run at the defence. As Jorginho runs back, Foden lays the ball off on the edge of the box to fire home and give City the lead.
The Chelsea midfielder has endured further struggles against the team he nearly signed for in two other games this season. He was horribly exposed at the Etihad as they were battered 6-0 in February, and then saw his penalty saved in the Carabao Cup final as Ederson's homework paid off to decide the winners.
Planchart has worked with Guardiola for more than a decade as an analyst to help improve the players in the squad and plan how to beat opponents.
"You can analyse a lot of things. I'm more into tactics," he said on the All or Nothing documentary. "I think I'm like a coach who uses the video to create a tactical report for the benefit of the team.
"As an analyst I'm interested in seeing the global position of all the players to analyse how they play, where the spaces are to see where we can attack from or how we have to defend."
UARTdong
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This is unfair on Jorginho I think. This is in the community shield, Sarris first competitive game in charge and the players were getting used to his high press system, adjusting from Contes much deeper system the previous season. Jorginho is the only player who is trying to press, as Sarri would like, as he would have been most familiar with the system following his time with Sarri at Napoli. Pressing has to be done as a team, so I think the rest of the team is at fault due to their half arsed pressing, plus the defensive line not being high enough. Following this game Chelsea went onto have a good start to the season and Jorginho was excellent, although he has been worked out and been in poor form in the second half of the season.
wengero
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Gotta take into consideration the absolutely shocking press from the forwards. Either you go for it or you keep the shape, but you don't don't half arse it that's the worst thing you can do. Secondly Jorginho does signal Barkley and the guy on the right to compensate, in order to being able to press higher. This is Sarri's commands. The lesson here is i think basic enough, although executing it well is pretty hard and requires great ballers. Pass the ball around in order to force the opponents out and use your ball playing CB to make a risky line breaking pass, completely destroying their shape and gaining an overload. It's sort of what Tiki-Taka is all about.