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Pep Guardiola's Inverted Centre Backs!
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Pep Guardiola's Inverted Centre Backs!

18/05/2023

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Pep Guardiola has implemented yet another new role in football where John Stones, his centre back, drifts into midfield and STICKS there!

After a discussion on Twitter, I subsequently thought coining John Stones' new role as an 'ascending centre back' would make sense, but it doesn't. Ascending is a gradual upward slant, but such a term could also be use…

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