#tactical-adaptation

#tactical-adaptation

"We had our way of playing when we started the season and maybe our opponents were not that familiar [with it]," he said. "Now they start to see how we want to play, how they stop that. Again, we need to evolve our things that can counter what the opponent is doing. "The basics and the foundations of how we do things are at a good level. Now, we need little tweaks - when we attack, how we can be more balanced in defence, attacking the box, how we can find this final pass. "The basics are there, the foundations are there, the principles are there."

Rafael Leao looks fantastic this season, and whilst he is still learning his new role, the future looks bright for the AC Milan star. When Massimiliano Allegri first arrived - and before that, in fairness - Leao was the talking point. How would the Italian bring the most out of the Portuguese, who had previously not been able to unlock his best?

when you have more players with different characteristics, especially with Cunha or Ben [Sesko], you have more options to score goals, especially against low blocks where there's no space. But that is just an excuse, we have players on the pitch, and we could lose the game but with a different intensity, the understanding of the moment when the other team fight each other and get the red card. And I think we didn't understand the moments of the game during the 90 minutes.

I'm not going to take any credit from Ousmane! He's a phenomenally talented footballer who's worked incredibly hard to get where he is, Jacobson smiles. Whether it was his idea or the manager's at Paris Saint-Germain to switch him from playing wide to playing in the middle, but the way he's adapted to that, he's thoroughly deserving of the Ballon d'Or and hopefully he'll still have time to play Football Manager!