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There are three phases of football, when a team has the ball, when they don’t have the ball and when the ball changes hands from one team to another, the transition in play.

Barcelona have a lot to answer for! They are by far, the number one team in the world for Time of Possession (TOP). They also happen to be far and away the best and most successful team in World football. Because they have the most TOP, they create the most chances from that possession, score the most goals. So the coaching argument goes, if your team could also have the most time TOP, it naturally follows that you too will win more games!

Switching play is a very effective way of dragging and pulling an organised defence around the pitch and creating holes and space that your team can exploit to create goalscoring opportunities.

It is frightening how much power and influence a soccer coach has with their players. Soccer coaches fulfil a number of important roles, such as:

Fascinating tactical analysis of how Pep Guardiola set up, coached and organised Barcelona with their fantastic, rotating attacking movement and how he had a structured plan for the team in the first two thirds of the pitch but gave the players real flexibility and trust to attack with freedom in the attacking third.

It's simple. To dramatically improve your teams goal scoring, put on sessions and conditioned games, like the one in the video, which will encourage lots of early, game related crosses into the danger area and coach attackers on wanting to get on the end of the crosses and on the timing, angle of their run and their finishing techniques.