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Author: Christian Garcia Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/long-ball-defensive-shape
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Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 20Simple way to deal with it is to drop into a deeper low block and deny the space behind. But the whole team has to be joined up so there isn’t space inbetween the lines to play.Simple rule to follow could be if the opposition player on the ball is being pressed and has their head down, you can push in a higher line. If they have time and can get their head up to see the pass you team to drop as a unit to deny the space in behind 👍🏻3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 20Simple way to deal with it is to drop into a deeper low block and deny the space behind. But the whole team has to be joined up so there isn’t space inbetween the lines to play.Simple rule to follow could be if the opposition player on the ball is being pressed and has their head down, you can push in a higher line. If they have time and can get their head up to see the pass you team to drop as a unit to deny the space in behind 👍🏻3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 20Simple way to deal with it is to drop into a deeper low block and deny the space behind. But the whole team has to be joined up so there isn’t space inbetween the lines to play.Simple rule to follow could be if the opposition player on the ball is being pressed and has their head down, you can push in a higher line. If they have time and can get their head up to see the pass you team to drop as a unit to deny the space in behind 👍🏻3Reply
Christian Garcia
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Christian Garcia • Sep 20@Jamie Birch I had them dropping a bit but my CBs were losing a lot of aerial duels and my CDMs also were lost and losing balls in a way I had my cam apply a bit of pressure to not let them have so much time to pick out a pass from the deeper side but most of the game they would literally just get it and ping it up no build up but I need to work with them on that they struggle with teams that play long balls and make those runs1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 20@Christian Garcia does anyone offer cover behind the CB when they’re going to win the ball?So if there is pressure on the ball high, your team can press up. If the opposition do clip a ball long, the player challenging for the ball needs cover in behind, either CB partner or full back to tuck round.To really deny space in behind you could set some really clear pressing rules in games where you feel like this will happen. An example could be we don’t press the opponent until the ball in in our ha… See more1Reply
Christian Garcia
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Christian Garcia • Sep 20One goes up and the others do cover a bit and get compact but no often I need to work on that with them. I could try that tomorrow the team tomorrow doesn’t play long balls much they like to play on the ground more and build up similar to me so could be my midfield fighting it out haha thanks for listening and giving feedback Jaime 🙌🏻1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 21@Christian Garcia no problem. Good luck today 👍🏻1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Sep 21If your team aren’t good in the air and cannot win first contact:
- Let the opposition play the ball long, the aim of the defender who is defending the striker/target player isn’t to win the ball, it’s to make sure the target player can’t win it cleanly. Disrupt his jump. Set the team up so they win the 2nd ball by having players behind and around the target player. If you can’t disrupt the jump, he’ll flick it on and you have numbers to sweep. If you can disrupt the jump then you’ll have players… See more
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Christian Garcia
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Christian Garcia • Sep 21Yeah we made some adjustments but the boys today seemed so off and played horrible it sounds bad to say but so many defensive mistake cost us a lost Today. They played better with the long ball but this time they suffered because they thought they could play offside trap all the time and they were punished but hey back to the drawing board tomorrow1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 21@Christian Garcia you’ll crack it Christian, you’re working really hard and it’ll pay off. Trying to catch teams offside takes a really organised defensive unit (and a bit of experience) and it doesn’t sound like they’re quite there yet. If you set some principles of:
- pressure on the ball from the front
- If the long ball comes, the defender is disrupting the receiver (reward them with praise for this, success is the attacker not receiving clean)
- Cover in behind as back up
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