10 Examples of Build up structures that can be used to counter act various Pressing strategies/tactics. Ultimately, the aim is to achieve a +1 player in the 1st and/or 2nd lines of the Attacking Organization.
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Are these 8 Technical Habits the core for football player development:
- Speed of play
- Vision & Awareness
- Running & Dribbling
- Passing & Receiving
- Receiving & Turning
- Finishing
- Defensive Skills
- Transition Skills
Thoughts - what would you add or change?
Carlo Ancelotti Takeaways:
- No time at the pro level to train because of too many games
- The coach is teaching tactics through images and video
- It is much more complicated being a coach in modern day vs the past
- Coaches are now teaching through theory and less practical
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⏱️ 78th min.
🏆 UCL Final.
PSG up 4-0 vs Inter. Game’s done…
But Khvicha Kvaratskhelia chases back full pitch to win a free kick. No glory — just grit.
Luis Enrique’s reaction says it all.
This is why they win.
This is a team. 💯
Derek Jeter on Game Speed: “It slows down when you're prepared and speeds up when you're unprepared.”
Preparation builds poise.
Poise builds confidence.
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The great Frank Lampard talking with the great Rodri about scanning. Mr Lampard calls it picturing, borrowing from his father’s term for it.
“Pictures, pictures, pictures” Frank Lampard Snr used to shout from the sidelines as he watched his son progress at the West Ham Academy.
Why?
Because all team invasion sports are the same. At the heart of these games lie the skills of anticipation and decision-making. Players who scan their performance environment give themselves the opportunity to:
1. See opportunities to exploit them
2. See dangers to deal with them
3. See patterns to understand the game around them
So, of course, it’s critical to instruct a player to scan. And, of course, creating activities in sessions that encourage scanning is crucial.
But here’s the thing. Perhaps the most powerful way to promote scanning behaviour is to help players understand why ‘picture taking’ is important. So often, establishing the meaning underpinning behaviour can change behaviour.
Useful can be to encourage players to understand that your team invasion sport is about actions and interactions. They constantly have to interact with their playing environment - teammates, opposition, space, ball, and target. Help them understand they are detectives of what’s happening around them. A Sherlock Holmes of the interacting elements emerging and dissolving, shifting and shaping around them.
By moulding their interest in their performance environment, you help your players mentally in two ways. It places their focus of attention outwards - they get out of their head into the game - an external focus of attention. Importantly, it also increases their activation levels (alertness and readiness) due to a rise in their fascination with what’s going on around them (a dopaminergic link here, perhaps).
Scanning, scanning, scanning
Pictures, pictures, pictures
…these are important instructions…but even more powerful could be to help players understand why they need to get their head up and start exploring the game around them.
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Thomas Frank with a little more detail on why and how he goes man to man on the defensive line to press high
Is there risk? Yes, but he tries to limit it
And he believes, with data to back it up, the reward (winning the ball high) outweighs the risk
"Principles are more important than shape & structure"
Julian Nagelsmann's detailed explanation on 'principle' based coaching and his own experience
VIDEO ANALYSIS
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Team intentions serve as principles that guide individual actions.
These team intentions are what make a team 'click', they form the foundation of team communication, they align individuals to a greater goal.
Often this is misunderstood but, Guardiola explains 🧵👇
De Zerbi Principles in action:
▶️2-4 Build Up Structure
▶️Overload Centrally
▶️Unbalancing & Half Space runs
▶️Patience to draw & provoke pressure to exploit gaps
▶️Alongside and Triangle Support options
▶️Switch to Overload