Tactics

To get your players to become good at Gegenpressing, they have to be given opportunities in training to understand what the triggers to Gegenpress are and why, what and how they should react.

Improve your teams defending. Also well worth a watch -

Gegenpressing is a German phrase, that became familiar with Jurgen Klopp and his Borussia Dortmund team.  To start this series on Geggenpressing, we examine the basics. Look out for phase 2 in the next couple of days in which we show how a coach can structure game related Geggenpressing scenarios that will really help their players to understand, how, when and where to Geggenpress.

Organisation

8 simple steps on how Grassroots football coaches can help their players to effectively defend as a team

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.

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.