{"id":2333,"date":"2026-11-10T21:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2026-11-10T21:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:52:05","slug":"flick-the-tactical-mastermind-who-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/flick-the-tactical-mastermind-who-changed-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Flick, the tactical mastermind who changed everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-8.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-8-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-8-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hansi Flick orchestrated victory over Atletico Madrid straight from the dugout, deploying Frenkie de Jong at right-back, making adjustments around Joao Cancelo and bolestering the defensive foundation with Andreas Christensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the sides deadlocked at 1-1 at the interval, the German tactician pulled a surprise move by introducing the Dutchman in place of Brian Farinas. Rather than turning to Eric Garcia as anticipated, he deployed a central midfielder at full-back to create overloads inside and pin the hosts back towards their own penalty area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hansi Flick gave free rein to Lamine Yamal down the right wing while simultaneously recalibrating the defensive balance on the opposite flank. With Joao Cancelo enduring an off-night, the stage was set for Andreas Christensen to make his return on the hour mark, allowing Gerard Martin to slot straight in at left-back to stifle Marcos Llorente and Giuliano Simeone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the turnaround complete, FC Barcelona brought on Eric Garcia and Gavi to shore things up and seal a decisive 2-1 triumph. Were it not for the master tactician in the technical area, the Primera Division leaders might well have suffered a very different fate at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano. Tactical masterclasses win matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansi Flick orchestrated victory over Atletico Madrid straight from the dugout, deploying Frenkie de Jong at right-back, making<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}