What is an Inverted Wing Back? João Cancelo’s Man City Role Under Pep Guardiola Explained

Welcome back guys! Today we’ll be taking a look at Joao Cancelo’s role in Pep Guardiola’s side.

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The Portuguese fullback has had an outstanding season so far for Man City, playing a key role in a so far successful season for the blues. So what’s an inverted wing back? Let’s take a look at the way Guardiola has deployed Cancelo.

First taking a look at the defensive aspect of the inverted wing back. The inverted wing back functions much like a standard full back or wing back would by dropping into their backline. However, whilst a traditional full back or wing back will offer width to an attack, usually through overlapping runs, the Inverted Wing Back will look to drift inside and create space for players around them.

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At Bayern Munich we saw the first iteration of Guardiola’s Free eights with inverted full backs. Guardiola joined the European Champions who won the treble playing a 4-2-3-1 with traditional, overlapping full backs playing behind inverted wingers but Pep looked to evolve the side. His use of Philipp Lahm and David Alaba as inverted full backs saw a fundamental change to the way Bayern operated.

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The 2020/21 season has seen Guardiola move towards an in-possession shape of a 3-4-3 diamond.
This shape is created from a 4-3-3 base and Cancelo operates as an inverted wing back from both the left back slot, where he’s on the opposite side to his stronger foot, as well as the right back slot. Regardless of his position, City create this attacking shape by using their wingers to hold the width, one midfielder moves to number 10 to support the striker whilst the other remains in a number eight position as Cancelo makes up the fourth midfielder.

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