La Liga News, Transfers, Match Reports & Updates – Football Espana
Intensity has become synonymous with modernity in the Premier League. In England, the general trend is to accelerate the tempo, and football in the British Isles has always prized physical capacity at all levels.
That seemed to to fit perfectly with Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, or Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea, who redefined playmaking by placing increased emphasis on what happened without the ball. Under Andoni Iraola, Rayo Vallecano were one of the few teams in La Liga to successfully implement the idea. Only a few months after his departure to Bournemouth, his assistant Inigo Perez took his seat in Vallecas. Since then, a word remains from his tenure: intensity.
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