New Technical Practice: Playing Against a Single Man Press 🧱

Continuing on our playing out through theme, we've added a technical practice for subscribers that breaks down how to play against a single man press across three progressive steps. (scenario in image below)

A great complement to The Core sessions as you build up the detail and technical understanding alongside the bigger picture practices.

Available for subscribers now 

Practice 5 of The Core is now live - Playing out from the back

Building on the previous sessions, this one moves into a 6v5 as we continue to develop the patterns and principles of playing out from the back, introducing the basic coaching points for building from that platform.

More to come before we bring everything together in a collection.

Youth Systems: The Recording is Now Available 

If you missed the live class on formation selection in youth football, the recording is now up and free for everyone.

The Tactx team went deeper than the article, which is available, going into more detail on how to build a coherent pathway from the smaller formats right through to 11v11 and how formation choices can support individual player development along the way.

Well worth an hour of your time if youth football is part of what you do.

Thank you to everyone who joined and contributed. It was our biggest class by far. 

This is free for everyone.

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/formations-in-youth-football

Live Class Replay: England's Pressing Problem vs DR Congo

Thanks to everyone who joined and got stuck in with questions, which made for a much better session going through it together. If you missed it live, the replay is in the library now, breaking down England's pressing problem against DR Congo and what we'd have changed at half time.

Any questions after watching, drop them below and I'll get to them.

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/england-through-pressing-problems-in-a-kane-masterclass

Live Class: Best Formations for Youth Teams 🧠

We've made this one free for everyone.

Individual development is at the heart of coaching young players, and formation selection is one of the ways we can support that. We want as many coaches as possible to be part of the conversation, so join us this Thursday at 6.30pm UK time as we go deeper into the ideas from our recent article with Simon Collins.

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/best-formations-for-youth-teams

A one-hour live class from earlier has been added to this collection for all subscribers. 

In there, we discuss 

• the 3-4-3 against the 4-3-3

• when and how to play around, rather than through

• the counter-attacking issues against a 3-4-3

• wide play, and how it can pin an opponent back

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/japan-1-2-brazil-tactical-analysis

New Analysis: Japan 1-2 Brazil 🔍

A really sharp tactical breakdown of how Brazil eventually unlocked Japan's compact 3-4-3, and why it took until the second half to find the answer.

The piece covers the shape battle between Brazil's 4-3-3 and Japan's setup, the issues Brazil ran into trying to play through centrally in the first half, Danilo's role dropping into a back three and the problems that created, and how Ancelotti's second half adjustment to play with width rather than through the lines turned the game.

We're also running a live class on this one today at 4pm UK time, where we'll go through the analysis in more detail. Can't make it live? No problem, the recording will be added straight after for anyone who misses it and is subscribed to Tactx.

Give the analysis a read before then, if you can, and fire over any questions

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/japan-1-2-brazil-tactical-analysis

Practice 4 of The Core is now live 

Building again on the previous sessions, this one moves into 5v4 and 5v5 as we continue to develop the patterns and principles of playing out from the back.

More to come before we bring everything together in a collection and live class. Fire away with any questions, and we'll make sure they're covered when we go live