Watch BBC Sport Football tactics correspondent Umir Irfan break down Xabi Alonso's tactical philosophy and how he might apply it at Chelsea. "If you look at all of the top coaches now, barring a few, they've all got general principles but the formation is so fluid and it changes," he told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club.
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