Against the best teams in the league that simply won’t cut it and you’ll find yourself overwhelmed more quickly than I was by my first wife’s lawyer in the divorce court. Sometimes we’d have about five fans there, so I don’t know who I was trying to impress. When I was first starting out as a coach, I’d go to away games looking to press with the same intensity as when I was playing at home. A good place to start is by dropping your mentality down a notch so, for example, if you’re playing with a control mentality as your default tactic it’d be a good idea to drop the mentality down to balanced. When you’re playing away from home you’re going to want to be playing a slightly more defensive version of your chosen system, unless you’re playing a side that you should be beating comfortably. It can easily ruin a season and turn the dressing room or the fans against you so it’s worth planning out a system that can easily be tweaked to suit those long away trips. ![]() Why can’t I find a tactic that works away from home?Īh yes, the old away day hoodoo or, as they say in South America, ‘hoodoo longe do dia’. Our resident Agony Aunt is here to help solve your tactical troubles and management miseries. He was hailed as El Mejor (simply ‘the best’) during his spell in charge of a Spanish Second Division side where he is still adored to this day… or so he claims.
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