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Author: Jamie Birch🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/when-to-build-and-when-to-go-long
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Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 15What he says makes sense. In theory and on the training pitch, and if you’ve got the players to play that way. Meanwhile in reality, teams may be happy to sit in their low block and let you have the ball, let your GK pass to your CB who passes to the RB who passes back to the CB etc. They’ll wait for you to make a mistake and nick the ball off you to have a shot.At the end of the day football is about scoring goals and being entertaining. Playing the ball around the back isn’t fun to watch and w… See more3Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 15What he says makes sense. In theory and on the training pitch, and if you’ve got the players to play that way. Meanwhile in reality, teams may be happy to sit in their low block and let you have the ball, let your GK pass to your CB who passes to the RB who passes back to the CB etc. They’ll wait for you to make a mistake and nick the ball off you to have a shot.At the end of the day football is about scoring goals and being entertaining. Playing the ball around the back isn’t fun to watch and w… See more3Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 15What he says makes sense. In theory and on the training pitch, and if you’ve got the players to play that way. Meanwhile in reality, teams may be happy to sit in their low block and let you have the ball, let your GK pass to your CB who passes to the RB who passes back to the CB etc. They’ll wait for you to make a mistake and nick the ball off you to have a shot.At the end of the day football is about scoring goals and being entertaining. Playing the ball around the back isn’t fun to watch and w… See more3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 15Agree with what you’re saying. I think it comes down to principles right, we play into the overload wether that be short or long. If we do play out short from the GK then our intent is to play forward quickly, you would imagine playing short would invite a press allowing you to play forward into an overloaded area upfield. If we can’t play forward, we look to tilt and switch the opposition. The important thing is intent, we’re not passing for the sake of it, the intent is to play forwards which is a key principle (of mine).3Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 15The theory is absolutely sound, manipulate the ball and drag the opposition out of position, play into space you’ve created and work the ball forwards to create chances.3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 15@Ross Whitehead absolutley0Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 15 (edited)Good videoPeople will be sick of me saying this, but take what the opposition gives you.For me, principles have morphed into “you must stick to your principles no matter what”, when in reality, principles should allow players to solve the problems the game throws at them. However, the make up of your players is key to that. No point asking them to do things they can’t or aren’t good at.Good teams and good players analyse the opposition during a game and identify what is going on, and have the kn… See more1:373Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 15@Kevin Middleton really clear Kev - great insight0Reply
Sean Ancheta
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Sean Ancheta • Oct 21@Kevin Middleton I like what you said about taking what the opposition gives you. Your team should learn the principles you are trying to instill in practice. There should be so much repetition that things start becoming second nature. The more scenarios and decisions a player can make in practice the better prepared for a game they will be. A key to all of this is patience. Having the patience and the when to apply the principles in the game. There will be moments in the game where the right de… See more0Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Oct 17Interesting chat. I thought a moment in the game the other night with Wales Vs Belgium related - Belgium’s second goal came from a long diagonal pass for Doku that Wales just assumed was going out so an example of playing to your strengths. Belgium understandably are going to ping long balls against a high defence and/or on the counter into that space for him to chase. Not many defenders will fancy that.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 17@Stephen Kavanagh Absolutley! Doku is frightening when he gets someone 1v10Reply
Mario Demmelbauer
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Mario Demmelbauer • Oct 21But when it comes to player development, it’s so important to let them make brave decisions. We want to be extremely brave in our build-up play, but if the decision is to play a long ball with a clear idea behind it (to play over one or two lines and get into a good position), then that’s okay too. Here’s a build-up scene from one of our games (green) against the league leaders.0:223Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 21@Mario Demmelbauer Love this. The player who eventually has the shot does a nice little rotation on the edge of his box to find a player facing forward from the up, back, and through.1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 21@Mario Demmelbauer very impressive 👏0Reply