Micky van de Ven's pace has been a particularly useful tool for Spurs, and the Dutchman has helped Cristian Romero return to form
When looking at the last two teams to go from top-four challengers to competing for the title, we can’t say there was one single thing that caused the transformation. What we can say, though, is bringing in a rapid centre-back who allowed their teams to play with a much more aggressive defensive line made an enormous difference. For , that was the arrival of in 2018, and for , it was ’s integration into the team at the start of last season.
During that period, he played as a right-sided centre-back in a three, away from the favoured position he is in now and alongside far less mobile defenders in , or . Conte, to be fair to him, was desperate to sign an elite left-sided centre-back , but a Van de Ven equivalent never arrived. On an individual level, despite playing as one of two centre-backs rather than three, Romero is getting forward more than last season.
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