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The 'Spygate' incident has dominated the world of football this week, after Marcelo Bielsa admitted to sending one of his coaching staff to watch Derby County train before their league game on January 11.

Subsequently, the Argentine called an extraordinary press conference, in which he confirmed he'd watched the training sessions of every single team Leeds have played so far this season.

He then revealed, with a PowerPoint presentation, the painstaking analysis and enormous amount of data that he and his coaching staff go through before every single game.

Now, you can't go and hide in the bushes with a pair of pliers on Football Manager 2019, but you can observe your opponent's strengths and weaknesses, giving you the ability to gain an advantage over them in your next match.

Here is the complete guide to how to 'spy' on your opposition in Football Manager 2019 (no binoculars required).

Pre-Match Analysis

A few days before a game, you will receive a Pre-Match Analysis email from one of your Data Analysts.

This email will include details of the formation and style of play your opponent will most likely use against you, your opponent's last match, positional heat maps, focus of attacks, key player, highest pass combination, match stats, an analysis of goals both scored and conceded in the last 20 matches, most successful formation, most vulnerable formation to face and set piece analysis from their last 20 matches.

This email contain all the basic information you need in order to plan your strategy for the next game.

Pretty comprehensive right? But there is a way to get even more information, if you want to do analysis Marcelo Bielsa style.

Team Reports

Find your way to your opposition's home page, by clicking on their club name or typing their name into the search bar at the top, then go to Team Reports, then Senior Squad and there you have it.

You'll see options for Overview, Squad Depth, Formations, Last Match, Facts, Stats, Goals, Shots and Comparison.

This is where the magic happens.

Overview

The Overview page will show you the major strengths and weaknesses of your opposition, based on stats and attributes.

It will say things like "7 of the last 16 assists conceded in the last 18 matches have come from the right side of the pitch" and "The team in general are good at off-the-ball movement and create problems for the opposition to solve".

It will also suggests players who could combat their strengths and weaknesses.

For example, the human manager's current side is West Brom and looking at Arsenal's Team Report, in the heading section it says "5 of the last 16 assists conceded in the last 18 matches have come from crosses. (Hegazi's aerial ability may help to exploit this)."

Very helpful indeed.

Squad Depth

This screen will show you the opposition's best player for each position, according to your assistant manager, and will also show you the difference in quality between your best players and their best players according to position.

It also shows you how many players your opposition have for each position, detailing each option with a star rating.

There is also a tab where you can change the comparison, instead comparing relative to your opposition's players or even potential ability.

Formations

On this screen you will able be able to view the various formations that your opponent has played with this season, the numbers of minutes they've played with specific formations and goals scored for and against with specific formations.

It will also show you their record against specific formations, with all the same data.

On the right side of the screen, it shows you their preferred formation and how they've fared against higher rated teams, similar rated teams and lower rated teams.

At the bottom of this section, it will show you how many minutes it takes for your opponent to create a chance on average, and how many minutes it takes for your opposition to conceded a chance on average.

At the bottom of the formation screen there is a section of text summarising all the key information.

It will tell you the formation with which your opposition create the most chances and with what formation they conceded the most clear-cut chances.

Last Match

In this section, you will see a summary of your opposition's last game, nothing revolutionary here.

However, if you go to the analysis button, next to the 'view match' button, this will open up a whole world of analysis.

Think Sky Sports MNF's tactics table, but times 100.

Here you can view every single pass, cross, shot, aerial challenge, tackle, foul, interception, set piece, scoring chance, save, movement, mistakes and average position from their last game.

These can then be filtered depending on what you want to view.

For example, if you specifically wanted to see the locations in which Arsenal played key passes in their last match, go to passes, untick select all, select pass-key, select Arsenal and they will appear. Clever huh?

Also, by clicking 'view match' you can, ahem, view the match.

Facts

This screen will show you details of your opposition players and compare them with Premier League averages.

Details include, youngest player, oldest player, average age, shortest player, tallest player, highest earner, lower earner etc.

Stats

This page will show you the opponent's worst and best player in a variety of stats. For example, goal attempts, passes succeeded, tackles won, penalties and minutes since last goal.

Goals

As you may have guessed, this section is all about goals.

In this section, it will tell you the time periods in which your opposition have either scored or conceded a goal in the last 20 matches.

You can also view the goal types they've both scored and conceded, for example, placed shots, overhead kick, header etc.

You can also view the assist types they've both scored and conceded, for example, corner, free-kick, through ball, opposition mistake etc.

The last tab is for clear cut chances, you can see how many clear-chances your opposition has created for and against, and how many clear cut-chances have been converted for and against.

On the right hand side of the page, it will show you the goal and assist locations in their last 20 games, both for and against, including in their own half!

Shots

In this section, you can view which exact area of the goal your opposition are most likely to shoot at, showing percentages, goal locations and goal conversion.

Comparison

The last section compares your team's average attributes against your opposition, to see where your team is stronger or weaker.

Every attribute is compared, even goalkeeping, with average age, height and other details also compared.

Well, there you go. There's all the information and detail you need to unlesh your inner Marcelo Bielsa. Use this information wisely, and best of luck.