Mauricio Pochettino, Maurizio Sarri, Leonardo Jardim and Jorge SampaoliĪfter the hugely popular Coaching Transition Play book, volume 2 provides more new ideas to help coaches improve their training sessions in the most important phases of the modern game – the transition phases. With 83 Practices based on 22 Transition Game Situations from the Tactics of: Learn to “Coach Transition Play” – Defence to Attack and from Attack to Defence More Information in the eBook: “Coaching Transition Play 2” Full Sessions from the Tactics of Pochettino, Sarri, Jardim & Sampaoli After a team wins the ball (transition), focus on: Quality of pass (ideally 1 touch), correct decision making, appropriate angles and distances for support play + good communication. The defending team need to press as a unit to limit space/time and win the ball.Ģ. In the transition to attack, the players have unlimited touches until they are all positioned outside.ġ. Players are limited to 2-3 touches and the neutral player has 1-2 touches.Ģ. Once they are all outside, they then try to complete 6-8 passes or keep the ball for 10 seconds (1 point).ġ. They must open the pitch in transition from defence to attack. If they win the ball, the whites try to move to the outside positions as quickly as possible, maintaining possession with the neutral player in the meantime (1 point). The objective for the white team is to press and win the ball. The objective for the blue team is to complete 6-8 passes (1 point) or keep the ball for 10 seconds (1 point). The team that starts with the ball has all their players at the sides (blues in diagram). In a 25 yard square, we have 2 teams of 4 and 1 neutral player (inside) who always plays with the team in possession. Pressing to Win the Ball and then Keep Possession in a 4 (+1) v 4 Transition Game Session to Practice POCHETTINO Tactics – Transition from Defence to Attack (Low Zone)ġ. SESSION FOR THIS TACTICAL SITUATION (4 PRACTICES) “The players have told me since that, even today, they still hear Jesus yelling out ‘press, press, press’ in their dreams.“ “I like football to be played well from the back, to have movement both in and out of possession, to pressure high up the pitch, and to be attacking.“ (Balague, G 2018, Brave New World: Inside Pochettino’s Spurs, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)Įxploiting Free Space in the Opposition Half with Fast Combination Play MAURICIO POCHETTINO’S TACTICS IN THE TRANSITION PHASES (TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR) We need to specifically focus on transition play and become more effective and efficient. With this in our minds, we must find the appropriate formations that can best utilise our players to achieve the team goals and be directly linked to the basic principles of our game model. What players do we have in our team? What tactical, technical and physical skills do they have? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Analysis of all of these elements can help us to create a path to follow in our work and in relation to the transition phases. Capabilities & Characteristics of the Players The purpose, vision, mission, short-term goals, medium-term goals and long-term goals of the team. Football is played in specific areas and specific zones, so the training should not be general and unspecific – it must be specific and concrete. Those who want to succeed in all 4 phases of the game start with the fundamentals and basic principles, working through sub-principles step by step. How do we want to play football? This includes the style of play in every phase of the game. Before creating specific practices, we must first create our own ‘Game Model’ which will be our guide for the tactics and training of our team (see diagram below). The game itself is the guide, but not any game, it must be our own game – how we want to play from the moment we lose the ball and how we want to play from the moment that we win the ball. The objective creates the practices, but the talent of the players and the coach’s ability is what defines and differentiates the training. How can we make sure our training is game realistic?įor each training session we need to focus on meeting our targets we want to apply on the pitch.This helps our players and the team to apply exactly what we want from them on the pitch. This creates substantial training and gives us the results that we want – it is the most effective method to organise your team and work on specific match scenarios. My personal view is that good training has to be game realistic (taken from the game and for the game). To answer these questions, we must first look at what the appropriate training is. What is the best way to coach transition play?.How can you organise your training of transition play better?.How can you train for the transition phases?.
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