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Jack Lacey-Hatton

Shape: football tactics explained

Pep Guardiola gesturing on the touchline against Brentford.

If I’d have to choose one word that ignites memories from my junior football career more than any other – it would be ‘shape’.

Struggling to sleep at night I can still hear, my first coach bellowing ‘keep the shape’ from the touchline. It was instilled into our under-9s team and that instruction still reverberates in my head when playing today.

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