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0 Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending eBook

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0 Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending - Part One

WORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One INTRODUCTION BUILD UP OF THE MOVES Part Two EXERCISE - 4V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V3 + GK EXERCISE - 6V6 + GK SSG Part Three COUNTER ATTACKS Part Four EXERCISE - 6V4 +

0 Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending - Part Two

WORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Two EXERCISE - 4V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V3 + GK EXERCISE - 6V6 + GK SSG Exercise 1: 4 v 2 with goalkeeper Set-up: 40x28 yards pitch, 6 players, 1 goalkeeper, 1 mini goal,

0 Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending - Part Three

WORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Three COUNTER ATTACKS COUNTER ATTACKS Looking at Klopp's history as manager, “no playmaker in the world can be as good as a good counter-pressing situation;” this means that a side to side pass move often requires slow build up play,

0 Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending - Part Four

WORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Four EXERCISE - 6V4 + GK SSG EXERCISE - 4V2 + GK SSG Exercise 5: 6 v 4 with goalkeepers SSG Set-up: 44x32 yards pitch, 10 players, 2 goalkeepers, 2 goals, two colors bibs, cones and balls. Two teams are placed

2 How to Exploit the High Pressure Defense

By Stevie Grieve

Valencia entice pressure to exploit the spaces behind the press.

Valencia came into the Emirates Cup with a new coaching staff, hired from Rio Ave in Portugal. New manager Nuno Espirito Santo and his staff already had the preparation done for this game as his last game in charge of Rio Ave was a Portuguese Cup Final 1-0 defeat to Benfica, where Rio Ave had some good opportunities to score but it wasn’t be a historic day for them.

Going into this game, they knew the spaces they would be able to find if they enticed Benfica to press like they usually do, so set out to pass into areas where Benfica would press, then find a way out to find players in the attacking midfield line between the Benfica defence and midfield line.

They looked for these spaces from the opening minutes, unfortunately losing a daft goal from a pass against a team mate, but from the 2nd half, with the injection of pace from Rodrigo on the left, and Andre Gomes positioning and speed of distribution in central midfield, they looked much more threatening, especially when the Benfica central midfielders were enticed to press in pairs.

Valencia Game Plan

Provoke high pressing from Benfica – Central pressure – release WM between lines

When the ball is passed into a central midfielder, they will hold until

1 SSG for High Pressure Defending

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on high pressure defending and taking players on offensively.

Start with a 60 x 40 grid with goals on each endline and a keeper in each goal. There is a designated defender (in white) for each team and 4 v 4 in the middle.

The rules are pretty simple. Each player is assigned a player on the other team and that is the only player they can mark. This game involves man to man marking and the only player who can provide any

0 High Pressure Defensive Shape and Balance

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on defensive shape and balance with an emphasis on high pressure.

Start with a 10 x 20 yard area (10 yards deep and 20 yards wide) with 3 attacking players starting on an endline and 2 defenders. One of the attacking players has a ball.

The attacking players are trying to take the ball over the opposite end line. The defenders are using high pressure to prevent the attackers from getting

0 High Pressure in the Middle Third

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on high pressure in the middle third of the field.

Start with a field 60 x 44 broken into thirds (you might want to make the middle third slightly bigger than the other two). There is a goal on each end line, a keeper in each goal and 4 v 4 in the middle. There is also a free defender in each defensive third of the field.

Each teams free player in the back must stay in

0 High Pressure and Defensive Transition

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on defensive transition and high pressure.

This is a 6 v 6 plus keepers on half a field with 2 full sized goals and a midfield line.

The ball starts with one of the keepers and the defending team plays

0 Possession and Winning the Ball Back with High Pressure

By Jebreel Bubtana

This exercise gets the players to develop their anaerobic endurance very well by winning the ball back quickly. The idea is to place the team with the ball under high pressure and win the ball back as quickly as possible and then pass the ball out the outside players and keep possession to get their breath and shape back.

Set up the field as shown below (figure 1). The area is 20x20 with 4v4 in the middle and 4 neutral players on the outside who cover the four sides on the square.

Both teams try to keep possession of the ball and can use the neutrals on the outside of the area to help them keep the ball and get as

0 Winning the Ball Back Quickly and Working on Conditioning

By Jebreel Bubtana, BRASA, Brazilian Soccer Academy If you like to have your team play a high pressure game and win the ball back quickly when they lose it, then this is a great way to develop this. Playing a high pressure game can be very successful during games but must be worked on regularly

5 Barcelona's Goal Scoring Secret

Barcelona are the team of the moment.  Everyone is talking about them, and for good reason.  They are hands down the best team in the world right now and many people are making the case that they are one of the best teams of all time.  All this is based on the skill level of their players, the incredible teamwork, quick one and two-touch passing and the way they out play their opponents and dominate the time of possession.  It's no wonder they win so many games and score so many goals.

But there is one part of their game that doesn't get much attention, and yet it is critical in my view, and is the difference between them being a good team and a great team.  It is the difference between them winning games against the likes of Real Madrid and Man U and dominating possession or finding themselves in close fought battles...not to say that those games are not close fought battles, but take the Champions League Final against Man U.  It was as one-sided a game in the final that I can remember.  Or Saturday's game v Man U...Barcelona had 69% v 31% of the possession.

So what is this part of the game that really makes Barcelona special?