Last Tuesday, Pep Guardiola’s post-match press conference was dominated by questions about the effectiveness of Atletico Madrid’s dark arts, but the Catalan has a master of his own that he could deploy in the second leg. Stopping counterattacks, faking injuries and even hair pulling, the Champions League quarter-final first leg between Manchester City and Atletico Madrid had it all last week.
Man City take the next step as virtual reality becomes more important in football
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If Aymeric Laporte wants to prepare for facing Mohamed Salah in a few weeks, the technology at his disposal means that he literally can face the Liverpool attacker without leaving his city-centre flat.
By popping on a virtual reality headset, the Manchester City defender can - as many times as he likes - put himself back into the game at Anfield earlier this season where Salah danced past him to score and practise how to stop it from happening at the Etihad. Or he could train against a 110 per cent version of Salah, potentially making the real player easier to keep quiet by comparison.
These are just a few of the tools available to the Blues as part of the partnership they have with Rezzil, a Manchester company whose early investors included Vincent Kompany and whose list of clients at the top of world football are growing with every month. City have been working with them since 2018 on a range of aspects in the game.
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Training drills obviously came into their own during the pandemic when the squad were forced to train alone at their homes, but are also useful at building players back up from injury as they can simulate the technique of doing everything and test their relative sharpness. There is also the analysis aspect, which allows players and coaches to pick apart footage from games to work out how to improve in the future.
"We have the capability to recreate a game as it was on Saturday and drop you at any point in that position in the stadium," explained Andy Etches, one of the three co-founders of Rezzil and an ex-City employee, "whether that is a player's point of view, whether it is in the stand, whether it is a helicopter
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