Create a World Class Soccer Defense by Chest Dugger

Author:Chest Dugger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: soccer, soccer coaching
Publisher: Abhishek Kumar
Published: 2021-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Six (Tactic):

For the system to be at its best defensively it is important to stop opposing players from operating ‘between the lines’. This is the area between the line of midfield four and defensive four. Number 10s in particular like to get into this space and find the time to make killer passes in behind the back four.

A tactic which can be employed to stop this is to drop one of the strikers back into the midfield four and slip a defensive central midfielder between the lines to track the runs of the number 10. Thus, the system switches from 4-4-2 to 4-1-4-1.

Secondly, the system is prone to allowing number 8s, attacking midfielders, from breaking late through the lines. Tactically, the central midfield must be aware of this risk, and focus on tracking such runs. We will focus on this in the next section.

Thirty-Seven (Technique): Tracking runs from central midfield:

In the old days, tracking would be a 1 on 1 man marking system. Players had less freedom to break out of position, so it was simpler to identify runners. The game today is more fluid, and therefore the coach should set up his or her team with each midfielder responsible for a zone. When a player breaks through that zone, they track them.

However, even this is too rigid to be effective in a 4-4-2 set up, since midfielders will make dummy runs to create space by taking out a defensive midfielder. Therefore, players track opponents who break through the zone that they are in, and the two strikers are aware of what is developing and slot into the midfield space left by their teammate.

Thirty-Eight (Drill):

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