Tottenham Hotspur returned to the Premier League action earlier today. It was a frustrating result for Thomas Frank‘s men (FT 1-2), who started with an aggressive press in the early exchanges which ended up setting the tone of the high press every time Emi Martinez had the ball. And with Bentancur leading the line from the central zones on the press, Simons was tucking in for a more inverted shape.

Speaking purely from a press perspective, Tel also brought that width when adding to press. It looked like a deliberate yet well-synchronised press, showing how Thomas Frank has this structural shape in place which has now been stamped on this team.

But the game is beyond just press and structure; there were a lot of talking points given how both Thomas Frank and Unai Emery are great thinkers on the touchline. And we will take a look at a few that we spotted along the ninety.

Thomas Frank has sorted out Tottenham’s fragilities from set piece situations as seen in Tottenham vs Villa.

The Dane head coach highly emphasised set-piece balls when he was in charge of the proceedings at Brentford. And today showed how he has ensured that this team (who were faltering...