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Ange Postecoglou on mindset and out of possession intentions
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A man whose respect was even felt in Spain! We loved his detail
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Pitch Action/Location Map.
What actions can we expect to see from which area of the pitch within our Philosophy and Game model?
Does the realism of our practice encourage the correct decisions in the right locations?
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How does pitch location influence the decision of your players?
How much clarity can you provide to players on your game model?
Do they understand the purpose of possession?
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Free Bielsa Coaching Book
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+ Extra entries for every coach you tag!
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Attacking Game Map
What characteristics and principles define your game model? How do they influence your game and how can you relay this information to players?
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Different Build-Up Structures
- Find different ways to manipulate the opponent
- Find ways to cause different opposition shapes problems
- Have alternate plans to cause different formations problems
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5 Ways to Beat a Player!
- Around
- Beyond
- Away
- Off the Opponent
- Double Movements
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Sessions from Mendilbar
Simple passing practice to encourage movement and refine receiving skills.
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Principles of Pressing
Predictable - Make play predictable
Pressure - Must apply pressure on the opponent
Purpose - Must have a purpose to why we press
Compact - Make the space compact
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WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES OF ATTACK
- Width
- Depth
- Penetration
- Support
- Creativity
Can you see them within your attacks, and how do you ensure players can imprint these into games.
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8v8 Counter-Pressing Game
- Create multiple counter-pressing opportunities
- Close space quickly and aggressively
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Movements to Receive
- Help your players understand the movements that they can make and the influence they can have on the opponent
- What type of movement is needed in what situations
- Practice them, Trial them and Exploit them!
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Two Great Defending Sessions.
Extracted from our book ‘Defending the Italian Way’
- Both practices we also observed Marcelo Bielsa using a few years ago
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Attacking Phase of Play
- Looking to combine in central areas
- Finding the feet of the striker
- Move the ball quickly
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Wide-Player Receiving Methods
-Beyond
-Away
-On
-Inside
-Outside
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Differing Build-Up Structures
- Where do you overload the opponent
- Where do you attempt to play
- How many vertical lines
- What is your strategy?
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What are the key principles of Pressing?
Do you apply pressure to an opponent, with consistent success, even when they adapt to your pressing style?
- Is your press built on effort or intelligence? Can your players recognise principles of an effective press
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Attacking Threat Map
- How do we attack, and how do we create crosses?
- Look to upgrade cross from wide areas into the box to increase the chance of scoring.
- Combien and around the box and stretch and threat the opponent.
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8v8 Counter-Pressing Game
-4v2 In Central Area
- Breaks out into 8v8 Practice
- 3 Different Counter-Pressing Opportunities
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Creating a Game Model
What is important to your game model?
- How do you want your players to behave in and out of possession?
- What are the physical and technical needs to be successful?
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Different receiving methods for wide players
- Beyond
- Away
- Inside
- On
- Outside
Different ways to manipulate the opponents players and receive possession of the ball
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A Four-Page Extract From
Coaching Small-Sided Games
Personally, this is the most important book we have ever put together. Small Sided Games play a huge role in player development; enjoy the extracts below!
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What Type of Cross?
5 Different areas to cross one
What does the analysis say?
What does this mean for practice design?
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Build up and Find Low-Pressure Areas⚽️
- How to build and find space around the press
- The importance of being able to switch play around the press
- The benefit of playing forward and supporting angles around the forward pass
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5v5 Transitional Possession Game
- 5v5 in a vertical fashion, with the Reds looking to score in the two mini-goals
- If the yellows regain the ball, they look to break and attack the two larger goals on the outside of the practice
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Building Through a Midfield Three
- Pivot player locked in a 1v2
- Opposite midfield players stay higher to create different passing lines
- Combining with Full-back to unlock the space
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Attacking Phase of Play
✒️ This is a practice to help teams develop central combinations within a midfield three. The defenders are locked into a 2v2 in the defensive third. The attackers also find themselves in a 2v2.
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Attacking Centrally 8v5
- Look to play through the middle of the pitch
- Overload the opponent by playing forward and running forward
- Run beyond the attack
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Coaching isn’t about you and isn’t about us. It’s about them. Making them the best person and player they can be!
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Different Build-up Structures
- 1-4-3-3 Build-up shape
- Minimal width build
- 1-4-2-4 Build-up Shape
- Back 3 Build-up Shape
Different methods to brekaout of the opponents high press
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Jose Mendilbar Passing Practice
- Variety in Passing Lengths
- Diagonal Passing
- Timing of Passes
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What does it take to be an effective pressing team?
- Intensity
- Bravery
- Control
- Intelligence
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Defending The Box:
Simple wave practice to challenge players to be effective at defending 1v1 and as a unit. In-Possession we are challenging players to exploit the spaces found in transition.
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Build up and Find Low-Pressure Areas
- Build-up play session for supporting players find space and unlock space
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Build Up and Find Low-Pressure Areas
- Play under pressure
- Switch play from high pressure to low pressure
- Use width and depth
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⚽️Building Through a Box Midfield
Objective📕 - Help players understand how a box midfield can help central combinations
Principles
- Overload central areas
- Penetration through/around the opponent
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Goalkeeper Distribution Map
Play Through,
Play Around
Play Into,
Play Onto,
Play Over!
Find the space!
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5v5 Breakout Finishing Game
- Quick Combinations
- Limited Time/Touches in Possession
- Find the Space Behind
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Creating a More Structured Half-Time & Example Timings
- Increase player engagement
- More consistent half-time messages
- A more holistic/ 360 review of the game
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ERIK TEN HAG - Counter Pressing Session
- Develop players who can play the game with their brain
- Players who can recognise game problems and changes within the game instantly
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Stopping the Opponent Switching Play in and Around the Box!
- Learn to cover space and protect the central area
- Create horizontal compactness within a defensive unit
- Recognise how to isolate players in 1v1 situations.
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Overload Practice
- Creating Overloads to exploit wide areas
- Encourage players to use different passing combinations as a method of exploring 2v1s
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Linking Formations Through Formats
How can you transfer and encourage learning through different formats with shared principles and formations
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Delaying the Opponent's Counter-Attack
Defending Principles
-Delay
-Deny
- Deflect
Force the opponent away from the goal, keep play in wide areas.
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Third Man Runs
- What are third-man runs?
- What are they used for?
- How are they used?
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6v6 Game
- Develop control with awareness of the game ahead of the ball
- Teach players to think 2 or 3 passes ahead, not where is the ball going but where will the ball end up.
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Breaking The Box!
- 8v6 Practice Attacking the final third through central areas
- Encourage combinations through vertical lines
- 1/3 Pitch Size
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West Ham Pre-Match Practices
- Rondo
- Possession Practice
- Phase of Play
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Creating YOUR game model?
- A model that is always changing and adapting
- A model that creates clarity for you and your players
- Without a game model every decision is uncomparable, with a game model it is possible to ask and compare decision to expectations
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Here are some sessions from the book
'Defending The Italian Way'
Including content from
- Mancini
- Conte
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📂 Transition Practice
└📁 ⚽️ 5v5+2 Line Breaking Practice ⚽️
└📂
🧑🏿🤝🧑🏽12+ Players
⌛️4 Min Working
🥱60 Sec Rest
📦 4 Blocks
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Small-sided Games for Development
7v7 Grid Game
- How to build through a midfield three
- How to progress the ball through the thirds
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Build Out With Shared Principles
- Overload
- Isolate
- Exploit
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Different Strategies to Press
- Press the opponent's full-back
- Force the opponent to play inside
- Force the opponent one way
Different ways of applying pressure
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A simple model to display some of key principles in possession. Try to encourage the opponent into pressing by overloading them and inviting pressure. This leaves space to isolate players and penetrate space. Then attack and expose the space behind
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If you're looking to develop your understanding of 'Playing out From the Back' or are just looking for session plan ideas... Look no Further!
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What are 3rd man runs and how do they work?
- A third man run is a run made by a third player (an additional player) to the two who are passing the ball
- The player who receives the first pass, then passes the ball forward to the third player who runs beyond
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Jose Mourinho may have lost his first European Final last night, but his legacy in coaching goes on. Below is one of his passing practices used at Tottenham and Roma
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Game Model Creation
What moment of the game, and what outcome are we likely looking to create? The Game Model in its simplest form breaks down into the behaviours that lead to the outcomes we need.
Where are we creating from?
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Attacking Phase of Play
⚽️ Progress into the Final Third
⚽️ Overload the Opponent in The Final Third
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⚽️Building Through a Midfield Three
✒️Finding the Pivot Player
🔞 YDP Age Group 13-18 Years
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8v5 Counter-Pressing Session
- Encourage Players to press with intensity and Intelligence
- React Quickly to Offensive and Defensive Transitions
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Check out this session, a great way of developing progressive passes within a diamond shape.
Available within our new book
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Finishing in and around the box 6v3
- Create quick-fire finishing opportunities
- Transitional Finishing opportunities
- Finishing through traffic
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Wide-Player Receiving Methods
- How to receive possession?
- What different ways to receive in a 1v1 dual
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Book Extract 📕: Coaching the Bielsa Way
- Bielsa's Finishing Square
- Create Combinations
- Combinations liked to playing philosophy
See more of the book 👇
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⚽️Pressure Transfer Game
🎯Get Pressure on the Ball
🎯Protect the Space Behind
🎯 Encourage the Ball Wide
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Counter-Pressing Game
(Transition Practices)
🔌 Play Forward on Transition
🔌 React Quickly to Transition
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Building Through a Box Midfield
- Find a strategy to overload Midfield
- How to Create Space away from opponent
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How is Possession Trained?
- How do you train it?
- How can you make it realistic?
- How can you link smaller practices to the game
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Building Through a Midfield Two
How can we encourage repetition and realism within a Small-sided building game?
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Switching Through a 2v2
- Finding the right time to switch play
- Helping players find the triggers to switch play
- Switch with purpose
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⚽️Counter-Pressing Possession Game
🎯Steal Possession and Score in Mini-Goals
🎯Keep Possession and Score with 8 Passes
🎯Counter-Press and Prevent Opponent Scoring
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German Counter-Pressing Practice
🧑🏿🤝🧑🏽11 Players
📕Counter-Pressing
⏲️ 20 Minutes
⌛️4x4 Mins 1 Min Recovery
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Combining Through a Midfield Three
⚽️ Combining through central areas
🖊️ Recognising when to play beyond and when to play into
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Managing Small-Sided Games
- Changing pitch size can manipulate the technical, tactical and physical returns
- Changing the numbers on the pitch can also have huge changes on the technical and physical returns
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7v7 Positional Possession Practice
- Help players recognise how to use and manipulate a central 3v3 matchup.
- How do players manipulate the opponent to create space within the central area
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Movements to Receive...
What types of movement can players perform to unlock space and beat the opponent
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Defensive Principles
- Pressure
- Compactness
- Delay
- Deny
- Cover
-Predictability
These are just some defensive principles coaches deliver into their practices. Other such as balance and deflection are also used to form defensively capable shapes.
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Pep Guardiola Downloadable Coaching Sessions
+ Free Additional Guardiola Pre Season Session Download
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Box Midfield Passing Patterns
- Box Midfield Passing Practice
- Different Combinations to Progress the Ball
- Use Different Lines to Combine and Progress
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Building Through a Midfield Box
⚽️ Progress Through Central Areas
⚽️ Create Space Through Different Movements and use of Space
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Counter-Attacking Practice
🔑 Dominate 2v1 Duals
🔑 Attacking Central Space on the Break
🔑 Try to Play Behind the Opponent
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