Good question. I think there are two parts to it.The cues/triggers to initiate or chain the press can be fairly simple: a poor pass, bad first touch, backwards pass, receiving with a closed body shape, ball travelling into a certain area etc.
The bigger piece for me is the strategy behind which press you use and when. That could be based on your own team’s strengths, but equally on an opposition weakness you’ve identified and where/how you want to regain the ball.In terms of training it, numbers and space available can dictate a lot.
You might not always have the numbers to replicate the full press, so you can isolate certain relationships or units and work on the key behaviours before building it into a larger game.
So the trigger starts the action, but the strategy determines which press we’re trying to chain into and why.
New Game Practice: Playing Out and Through | 7v7 Back Three
Now we're starting to bring it all together.
This 7v7 game practice focuses on the central positions and building relationships between players to play through with a back three. If you have been working through the technical and skill practices, this is where you will start to see those building blocks take shape in a more complete environment.
New Game Practice: Playing Out and Through | 6v6 Back Three
The latest game practice is now live for subscribers.
The 6v6 is conditioned to encourage build-up play with a back three, with scenarios that replicate what players will face on matchday. As always, we recommend pairing it with the technical and skill practices on the same topic to get the most out of the session.
We have started turning some of our daily discussions into weekly blog posts.
A lot of interesting topics come up between us that we can't always turn into content, so this felt like the right way to share them. Our latest post looks at some of the data we have compiled over the years on 1v1 practices and why the simplest actions sometimes have the greatest effect.
New Game Practice: Playing Out and Through | 5v5 Back Three
If you are playing a back three, this one is for you.
The 5v5 game practice is built specifically for coaches running a back three and works best alongside our technical and skill practices designed for the same system. We recommend pairing it with technical practice 6 onwards and skill practice 6 onwards to get the most out of the session.
We recommend using this practice with the technical and skill practices as part of a wider session. The practice uses the scenarios from these practices in game situations where you can see it all come together if you want to build with a back three.
You will notice we encourage the coaches to play a ball straight in when the ball goes out of play, or a goal is scored. This keeps the flow of the practice and encourages the players to adapt to a different phase of the game (for example, attacking organisation into defensive transition).
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Good question. I think there are two parts to it.The cues/triggers to initiate or chain the press can be fairly simple: a poor pass, bad first touch, backwards pass, receiving with a closed body shape, ball travelling into a certain area etc.
The bigger piece for me is the strategy behind which press you use and when. That could be based on your own team’s strengths, but equally on an opposition weakness you’ve identified and where/how you want to regain the ball.In terms of training it, numbers and space available can dictate a lot.
You might not always have the numbers to replicate the full press, so you can isolate certain relationships or units and work on the key behaviours before building it into a larger game.
So the trigger starts the action, but the strategy determines which press we’re trying to chain into and why.