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.

Thanks, Nathan. 

Of course. We will ping you once we know it's coming in an upcoming class. 

Shawn B. Thanks Shawn 👊

Daniel P. Hi. This will take a day of work to put together and as soon as we finish this working project, we will jump on it. 

Hi Venhola,

The videos are not available to download. As you can imagine, allowing downloads would make it very easy for the animations to be shared with non-subscribers, and we have to protect against that to be fair to everyone who is paying for access.

Not as of yet.

It’s on the list as we work through a game model and strategies.

I’ll add it to the list to discuss on our next live class and then I’ll give you a shout as soon as there is a some produced content.

Tactx : We believe the technical ability of the England players is at this level. The risk and retain choices come down to a strategy implemented over time rather than to an instruction for a game. For example, in our La Masia article, we write about the cries of 'tranquilo' (calm) that come after winning the ball. A retain model that is built. Gordon and Rogers are two players who thrive in risk, and England scored goals through this strategy in the tournament. As you said, the pressure and occasion may have got to some players. England lacked that control when they won it back with a risk or a retain decision. 

One question we missed from Dale...The example you gave of Guehi retaining possession in transition and the lack of that later in the game from others - do you think that’s a question of ability of the other players or more an instruction they needed to be given (retain > risk at that stage)? Clearly pressure is a factor at that stage but looking forward, is it something an instruction is more likely to fix, or is it that our players didn’t have the capability to retain in those moments? I remember Henderson I think against Croatia just lumping the ball forward no interest in retention, that makes me think it’s more an instruction than ability or inferiority complex

Trainer Hi, 40 length x 24 width

Hi Daniel, this will require quite a bit of detail, so we have pushed it back to the next class.