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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’ll analyse how the press has become smarter, more compact, and harder to bypass — and why it’s reshaping the way football is played at the elite level.
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Chapters
00:00 The Press is Evolving
01:15 The Original High Press: The Free Player
03:55 The Rise of Man Marking
06:39 The Tactical Positioning
07:46 Newcastle’s High Press & weaknesses
09:02 Inzaghi’s Solution
09:33 The Teams Not Following the trend
10:26 How This Makes Football More Chaotic
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This only works against teams who play two dimensional football. It takes a lot guys to press like this and leaves great big empty spaces behind them. You can't use it against a team that is happy to chip over the press giving their AMs fast balls to run onto with most of the opposition behind them.
And if you man mark all the time, your guys had better be quicker than everyone in the opposition, or when they get the ball they'll linger down field, then suddenly sprint to goal leaving their marker behind them and create an overlap in your penalty area. 'Dragging the marker' has been used for 50 years.
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It always depends on the players and skills. Do some good scouting and you can play the odds much more tactically.
this style is much more entertaining than the endless horse-shoes playing out, w/o a press. Brighton w/ De Zerbi, his 1st yr, was great fun to watch. he trusted his players to play 1-touch passes mostly or turn into space and pass forward, under pretty extreme presses.
defenders have to be good at passing now
High press is nothing new. The problem is you need all 11 players on the pitch to have the same mentality, discipline and stamina to execute this well. Even if 10 out 11 pressing but 1 doesn't, it may not work. In fact for top team and top pros this is shouldn't even be a tactic, it should be one of the basic requirement. If someone doesn't wanna press then why is he even on the pitch… At amateur level this is even more effective but sadly it is hard to convince everyone to press
ok good if you play in countries where anti-doping is a bit "distracted"
Ah, this makes a lot of sense. I've only been watching MLS and watched the UCL Final this week. It was my first time watching any European league games (Besides the LFC's game where they won enough points to become the EPL Champions). In the UCL Final, Inter crumbled under PSG's pressing.
I'm still extremely new to soccer so I can't break down the "Why?". What my eyes told me was that PSG had unrelenting pressure, man to man defense, high motor (players did not get gassed), kept possession on PSG's attacking side and kept Inter from getting past midfield. I also did notice that a big difference from what I've seen in MLS when they quasi-press is them actually pressing the goalie.
great great video
One side effect from this type of heavier pressing—a loss of flair.
It's just not *as common anymore for players to try a take on it seems, lot of times players will play (heh) it safe and just pass sideways or backwards.
The foremost example of this, or maybe one of the more expensive examples is Jack Grealish. At Villa he had the freedom to run at players, at City it seems he's been… hampered a bit.
I think the best position will have clubs which have formations where in build up actions two pivots in centre, because when press 1 by 1 is effective when we have one player in the middle, though when we add an extra player in there we get one more option to start. And what you've said the play on third will be more often and higher number of crosses and long passes. That would be nice to managers like Thomas Frank, so I think Tottenham could go high this season😊
In youth soccer, we teach the players to man mark on the build up bc it limits the effectiveness of most build out techniques. At the youth level, the long ball is a low percentage play bc most players aren't accurate with it yet. So teams generally have to play it on the ground. Man marking can lead to turn overs in dangerous areas, which leads to better scoring chances. Win the turnover, have a touch, and then shoot.
Gasperini started doing this long time ago
これ、レオザじゃん
das hab ich schon 2017 spielen lassen mit dem Pressing
SDFC is dominating MLS with a dedicated build from the back strategy plus a strong press. I know MLS is not a major league (ironically given the name) but I would love to see you analyze what is working for them/us.
amazing video!
hard pressing is not man-narking mode. is playng zone mode anyway. Gasperini too
It's been done for years! Zone or Man to Man Defence..
Gian Piero Gasperini implemented and theorized this at Atalanta over 10 years ago.
I'd really love to see you talking about the cost of man-marking – where I think it is very expensive, because the most expensive resource (men) have to go further distances than the least expensive resource (the ball). I haven't done analytics on this yet, but bet we se more injuries, more players missing gamnes for recovery … with teams that use man marking now vs. before they played that tactics. I'm particularly critical of this because, with the increase in competitions in recent years (Nations League, Club World Cup), we've already seen a massive increase in the wear and tear on our most valuable resources (players). The only long-term option will therefore be to massively expand squads and, of course, the salary volume per club. And if we look at Barca, we can see what happens when you employ too many players for too much money. Bankruptcy or even more autocrats from kleptocratic countries like Russia, Qatar and Co. who are taking over entire leagues.
Nothing has changed. It was already pressed like this 20 years ago…."Small teams" are now athletically capable of pressing like this as well.
PSG boots diagonal ball from kick-offs they take…to start Press from Start..is becoming common…and soon will be like Rugby
Im pretty sure even Ange Postecoglou was using the high press, quick transitions, quick passing and creating overloads when he was coach of Australia 10 years or do ago.
This was often using 4:3:3 or 3:5:2 depending on the opponents he was playing and also the players he had available to him at the point in time
Wow, hearing that 21-22 season pressing system is old even though it was just few years ago. How quickly football have evolve this past few years, however i think we will go back to when all team gonna play long ball and winning the second ball if this type of press really becoming a trend and then everything come full circle. Maybe we will go back to when football have no real tactics, where we gonna have more dribbler like Messi, Ronaldinho, Neymar, Zidane who work well to bypass the press and dribble past 2-3 opposition player.
What is the name of this program that you maked this video?
thats why player like vitinha ruben neves and fabian ruiz are shining
they dribbled the pressing to the front while everyone is man marking the defence
I am terrible at soccer but I enjoy coaching my 9 year old and 5 year old and I am glad I watched this entire video ! thank you
6:51 what you are describing reminds me of a thing coaches call dilemmas. its where basically the press's target is to result to a situation where the goalkeeper or a player is in a dilemma to whether make this pass or that pass. fully knowing that a specific choice would mean that his player would be trapped, they are lured into confusion, since the different option would usually mean playing the ball back even more (maybe to the gk), forcing the press even higher and limiting future options. when done correctly, this press creates huge stress on the player in possession, often times not deciding to choose either of the two options at all and instead losing possession.
The problem of that it makes the football become more and more ugly and boring.
What will the result be? Kick and Rush on a second ball.
In future we'll see powerplay tactic,gk dribbling with one two touch for build up 😂😅
So, some of these day, we will see a playmaking GK with ability to pass n think like Pirlo, KDB or Kroos maybe?
cause They back to man to man press in kick off
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Where can I find this statistic from minute 8:39?
Cosa ci dice tutto questo? Che non esiste più la qualità tecnica individuale di una volta.
Football defensive tactics are becoming more basketball tactics..Whatever man making n zone marking 422 whichever team using..it still the quality of individuals players.. procession football are not gaining much advantages..we are going back good old direct football with playing long balls depends on quality of players
Credo che la riuscita per superare la pressione avversaria sia dovuta si ad un movimento coordinato dei giocatori ma anche alla loro intelligenza
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I think the intense man marking also forces the tactical move back towards highly skilled players who used be really good at avoiding their markers. Once their mark is broken, the extra defenders are pulled in to counter them and that unravels the press pretty quickly almost like a chain reaction. That's what creates the chaos.
what? this is just another basketball tactics.
I recall Pep using man to man defending in Bayern vs Luis Enrique’s Barca in 2015 and lost 0:3. I thought that was madness.