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Spurs v Chelsea: Tactics analysed
- Updated: January 4, 2017
Tottenham take on Chelsea at White Hart Lane live on Sky Sports on Wednesday, but which team will come out on top?
Sky Sports pundit Danny Higginbotham looks back at Chelsea’s narrow 2-1 victory against Tottenham on November 26 to give his insight on what kind of game we can expect when these two sides face each other again on Wednesday.
How did Tottenham try to counter Chelsea’s 3-4-3 last time?
Spurs were one of the main tests that Chelsea have had this season when they came back against Tottenham.
A lot of people associate Tottenham with a 4-2-3-1 but what they did in this particular situation was they took the game to Chelsea and played what very much looked like a 4-1-4-1.
They pushed Mousa Dembele a bit further forward. Chelsea know how narrow Tottenham’s players behind Harry Kane play and it was no different even when there was four midfielders. What you found is the midfield four all played narrow behind Kane.
N’Golo Kante and Nemanja Matic, usually dominate the central midfield areas but they couldn’t because Tottenham got themselves on the front foot.
The question was asked whether Matic and Kante …
