{"id":125584,"date":"2025-07-19T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=125584"},"modified":"2025-07-19T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:22:49","slug":"why-this-new-pressing-tactic-is-changing-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=125584","title":{"rendered":"Why This New Pressing Tactic is Changing Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pjiegk27Lsg?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Join the Football Meta Community for Extra Content:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOdR79CQSet6tQrKVbfIaQg\/join<\/p>\n<p>In this video we break down the tactical evolution of pressing in modern football and how teams are using aggressive high pressing systems to dominate build-up play. We\u2019ll analyse how the press has become smarter, more compact, and harder to bypass \u2014 and why it&#8217;s reshaping the way football is played at the elite level. <\/p>\n<p>In Partnership with SICS:<br \/>\nwww.youtube.com\/@sicssport<br \/>\ninstagram.com\/sics.sport<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this video please leave a like &#038; subscribe for more!<br \/>\n__________________________________________________________________________________<br \/>\nKEEP UP TO DATE<br \/>\nSECOND CHANNEL: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheCoachBook<br \/>\nINSTAGRAM:https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thefootballmeta\/<br \/>\nPATREON: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/FootballMeta<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________________________<br \/>\nChapters<br \/>\n00:00 The Press is Evolving<br \/>\n01:15 The Original High Press: The Free Player<br \/>\n03:55 The Rise of Man Marking<br \/>\n06:39 The Tactical Positioning<br \/>\n07:46 Newcastle&#8217;s High Press &#038; weaknesses<br \/>\n09:02 Inzaghi&#8217;s Solution<br \/>\n09:33 The Teams Not Following the trend<br \/>\n10:26 How This Makes Football More Chaotic<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pjiegk27Lsg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Football Meta Community for Extra Content: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOdR79CQSet6tQrKVbfIaQg\/join In this video we break down the tactical evolution of pressing in modern football and how teams are using aggressive high&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4002,"featured_media":125585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}