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Updated 04/07/2025 – 11: 05CEST

Welcome to Nicolas Jover Penitentiary Center. It is the right hand of Mikel Artetathe fans ‘Gunner’ has dedicated a mural on the outskirts of the Emirates Stadium forks One of Real Madrid’s main concerns For the quarterfinal qualifier of the Champions League.

The chief of the arsenal laboratory, which has been making merits to be considered the best coach of the world’s stopped movewill test your libretto to the Ancelotti coaching staff, which has studied until exhaustion all the variants offered by the London team. This German, raised in France, began its stage in professional football as Analyst at MontpellieR Before making the jump to the Premier after seven years of tireless tests until you find the key. Make mistakes and start over… until the Brentford offer came, already in charge of the stopped ball plays, which He opened the door to the Pep Guardiola sponsorship.

‘Sky Blue’ sprayer and irrevious offer

Two campaigns, from 2019 to 2021, in which reduced from 39% to 16% the goals that Manchester City received a stopped ball And in just one season the became the best scorers of the championship in this kind of plays. A stage that ended after Arteta, guardiola assistant at the City and very close to Jover, I would convince him, after a great offer, to change Manchester for London.

I dream of developing a recognizable style of stopped ball plays, as a game style

Nicolas Jover

With Mikel Arteta he barely agreed six months in the Etihadbut they were enough to connect in a special way. “Your experience can be incredibly useful and valuable for us. It is a crucial part of the game. It is something to master and we are in it“, confessed the ‘Gunner’ coach. Said and done. From his arrival at Arsenal in July 2021, Those of Arteta have gone from being eighteenth in the ranking of goals to ball stopped to be the first. In total, 53 goals scored in that facet of the game.

An unique slate

Arsenal scored six goals to ball stopped at 2020-21, the second worst record of the Premier, before its arrival… and last season they achieved 22, an increase of 266%. Of the 22, 16 they arrived in corner, record in the history of the Premier. “In the City he enjoyed, but Surely the amount of information he received was limited due to the way he trains Pep Guardiola. But, without a doubt, he has found himself in Arsenal, ”explained the English coach Dean Smith.

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Jover Pizarra is Bukayo Sakawho returns in time after an injury that had three months away, with his 13 assists this season to pursue the twenty record held by Thierry Henry and Kevin de Bruyne. His simple figure, every time he goes out to instructions in a strategy play, already intimidated. “It’s a bit annoying, that ball coach stopped, but it’s very good,”Gary Neville pointed out.

Screens, blockages, clarified, unchecks, lures… In the Nicolas Jover penitentiary center, everything is valid to achieve the ultimate goal. “I dream of developing a recognizable style of stopped ball plays, as a style of play”recognizes Nicolas Jover, who will test everything learned in the most complicated test that can be faced in the world of football. Thus, it’s not just a matter of having great pitchers like Saka, Rice or Odegaardbut to create A perfect cocktail that mixes the hit, the mobility of its auctioneers, the creation of ‘baits’ and the conviction that the plan has no failures.

White fear and a fundamental return

In current football, increasingly matched, the figure of the strategy trainer has become transcendental. And if Arsenal has a genius, Madrid is not far behind. Davide Ancelotti and Francesco Mauriboth are responsible for the strategy actions of the White Club, are the thinking head to block the rival … and give free rein to the imagination to bill in attack.

“This year is a bit more complicated. We have scored goals with played play. We are working on this to find different solutions with rehearsed plays.”Carlo confessed this season about a libretto that last year served, among other things, so that Carvajal scored 1-0 in the Champions Final in Wembley. An inevitable search and more variants to finish finding the key. And the tests came out Fede Valverdewhich has scored 4 of the 8 goals he has a play rehearsed. However, Carlo is concerned about the defensive aspect (Betis, Villarreal and Valencia are the last proof that something does not work).

11 goals against a stopped ball. Some figures that concern the Madrid coaching staff, who know that they have to give the key to close ranks to a defensive section that seems key in this season section. So things, The return of Courtois is one of the best news for Madrid for the ease of Belgian in the air balls. The 1 never hesitate to leave his comfort zone thanks to his two meters high to help his teammates in the ball plays, a security that Madrid will need in the Emirates to get well stopped from the Nicolas Jover Penitentiary Center.