Saturday’s Total Football Analysis Today brings you…

In this week’s podcast, Adam Scully sat down with Michael Brown of FK BODØ/GLIMT to talk elite performance, the importance of sleep and the potential effects of the World Cup – listen to that here

Luis Kircher continues his search for football’s next generation and has scouted FC Red Bull Salzburg‘s history-making Karim Konate – read that here

And then Adam is back taking a close look at Villarreal CF, SAD, no under the management of Quique Setien – plenty of passing, minimal end product suggests it is going wrong, but doesn’t that mean it is just going Setien? Find out more here

Don’t forget about our World Cup Preview Magazine being on the digital shelves – 300 pages tactically profiling all 32 teams playing in Qatar.

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Then Adam Scully and the archives…

Empoli won 2-0 in Serie A against struggle Cremonese – read about manager Paolo Zanetti’s interesting tactical philosophy here

Jonas Hofmann had an excellent game against Borussia Dortmund last night in an emphatic 4-2 victory – here is our scout report on the experienced wide man

Kouadio Kone also scored in that game – here’s why the Frenchman is one of the best talents emerging from Germany

Amad Diallo was superb for Sunderland in the team’s 2-1 victory over Birmingham City yesterday – read our scout report on the Manchester United loanee with a bucket-load of potential

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