Thierry Henry speaks on new coaching collaboration with Cesc Fabregas

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Thierry Henry and Cesc Fabregas are working hard at a tender Italian club called Como 1907. Henry spoke recently about this collaboration with Fabregas.

Fabregas played with Henry at Arsenal FC before the later left, and went ahead to have a glorious career on the pitch.

Henry’s coaching abilities have undergone training over the years, especially at France’s football association.

He has worked for some time now at Como, so he had things to say when interviewed concerning how the coaching was going on. The Frenchman was quoted to have said the following by Sky Sports in a recent issue:

‘As a coach, you have to be a little bit smart and understand the players that you have. This squad was not built by me.

‘Mentally, it was the opposite to how I wanted it. I have to make the changes in an intelligent way. Adapting to what I have and doing it slowly.

‘They were playing a 5-3-2 and quite deep. That is not something I enjoy as a coach.

‘I suffer when I see my team so deep, playing long ball and losing it again and again. So we just changed a little bit now. We have moved to a back four, much higher up the pitch.

‘You can be more aggressive. We defend the spaces not the man. This team was used to defending man-to-man.

‘The problem is that when they are better than you and they are physically quicker and stronger than you, you can have lots of problems.

‘We try to play close to one another to attract the pressure and then attack in behind.

‘The team was just playing long and losing second balls. When making passes of six or seven metres, it is easier to connect than when you are making passes of 20 or 25 metres.’

The only goal Fabregas and Henry have is to bring the club out of group B and make it a great one in Italy. A tough but possible task.