Tottenham replaced Nuno Espirito Santo with the moderately more progressive Antonio Conte before hiring Ange Postecoglou. Nottingham Forest have cut out the middle man and lurched from one extreme to the other.

Nuno worked wonders with Forest, taking them from 17th to seventh in the Premier League table with a strategy reliant upon sound defensive foundations and lightning-quick counter-attacking.

In many ways, Postecoglou’s philosophy is the polar opposite. He prefers a high line to a low block, having more of the ball than the opponent, pressing high rather than sitting off.

Across the last two Premier League campaigns, Forest ranked 19th for both possession and PPDA (passes per defensive action, a metric that measures pressing intensity). Spurs ranked fifth and first in those respect

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