Thank you for your question! As with any training approach, there are always trade-offs. When focusing on a specific outcome, you may need to prioritise certain elements over others.

This particular practice is designed to help players become comfortable with twisting and turning, while also giving the attacker multiple exit routes in a 1v1 duel.

The key to mastering these situations isn’t just recognising the available exits—it’s about learning how to manipulate the defender to create them. By developing this skill, players can gain a real advantage in 1v1 scenarios.

Give it a go and see how your players respond. Let me know how you get on!

Best, Tactx

Hi Bill. Apologies. We made an error in the background set-up. It should be all fixed now.

Love it. Thanks David.

It's one to use again. FAMILIARITY will take away the first few minutes as they adjust to the practice. 

This should give you some ideas. It's Amorim's method at Sporting Lisbon, where the ball-side wing-back jumps.

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/ruben-amorim-out-of-possession-tactics

The striker looks redundant in your highlighted press, and access could be easy to the wide full-backs.

You could use a striker and a wide forward to press the centre backs, push a wing-back on from the ball-side? It would all depend on how you want to press.

Can you explain further, please? I'm not sure I understand what is meant by 'opponents pass be attacked'.

You can find some practices on a defensive three/five in this collection.

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/collection-a9dojhjdp_o

Hi Daniel.

There's an explanation on how it made it work at Sporting Lisbon, with aggressive wing-backs on the ball side, in the collection below.

https://tactxcoach.com/programs/ruben-amorim-out-of-possession-tactics

We will also produce a pressing animation for the 3-4-3 against any system, similar to the the 4-3-3 high pressing bundle which can be downloaded here.

 https://tactxcoach.com/programs/collection-0g1qpklx93q

Leave it with us!

We will get this changed later today. Thanks for letting us know.

This is group-depending, of course. We suggest restricting the defenders to their half UNTIL the ball is passed in. They are then free to move across the whole pitch. You can then challenge the attacking players further by allowing the defenders to move freely from the start of the practice.

Further challenges - no passes into link players from outside players and take away one or both link players.