When watching a game of football, we only truly consume a snippet of the action.
We are naturally drawn to the fun stuff occurring on the ball, but zoom out a little and there is beauty laid out in the carefully choreographed off-ball movements across the pitch.
You might not notice a lot of runs. Some of them will not even get picked up by the television coverage, but when a player receives the ball in space, you can be confident that it was their team-mates’ movements elsewhere that dragged the opposition out of shape.
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Runs beyond the defensive line are crucial to a team’s attacking potency, particularly in a Premier League
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