Variable Pressing Strategies

Seminar 1: Variants of pressing in analysis and comparison

Author und Presenter: Ralf Peter
Director and Editor: Peter Schreiner
Animations: 9 - Graphics: 52 - Playtime: 51 Min

Main topics:

Basic considerations

• Types of strikers and their possibilities against the ball
• Central midfielders (CM)
• Own defensive basic order
• Opposing offensive basic order
• Where should the ball ideally be won?
  • Central
  • On the wing
• Pressing space
  • Midfield Pressing
  • Defensive Pressing
  • Attacking Pressing
• Behavior, when the opponent escapes the pressing

Midfield Pressing

• Directed inwards, "temporized"
• Directed inwards, "active"
• Directed outwards, "temporized"
• Directed outwards, "active"

Training forms

• Exercises for inward directed midfield pressing / attacking pressing
• Team tactically
• Group tactically up to 4 against 4
• Group tactically (complex up to 6 vs 6)

Outward directed, controlled midfield pressing
Training forms for outward directed pressing