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Pre-Season Football Rondos & Possession Drills: Training Exercises To Play Like Celtic & Real Madrid - Tactical Theory
Rondo and possession exercises are now staples in most modern football coaches' repertoires. They can, and should, be used throughout the season. However, they can be particularly useful to coaches during pre-season as a way to break down the components of a particular game model while providing enough intensity
Coaching Striker Movement For Crosses Like Celtic's Kyogo & Forest's Chris Wood - Tactical Theory
This tactical analysis focuses on the movements of top-performing strikers in the moments before their final goalscoring action from various types of crosses. Instead of focusing on their involvement in build-up play, this tactical theory analyses how forwards can create space for themselves in front of the goal to attack
Coaching Attacking Creativity In Wide Areas Like Bukayo Saka – Tactical Theory
Coaching attacking play, and specifically, creativity in wide players, can be one of the most challenging concepts for coaches to improve in their players. However, it is often a piece of trickery or a moment of magic in the wide areas that lead to the game’s defining moments. Every
How To Develop Midfielders Like Rodri: Coaching Elite Movement And Positioning - Tactical Theory
A team’s chances of success in modern football rely heavily on the qualities of their holding midfielder. Especially in the build-up phase, the ‘6’ becomes a de facto quarterback whose movements and decisions impact every other player. Technique, movement and tactical understanding are the core attributes that determine the
Dribbling In Modern Football: How AC Milan, Bayern Munich & PSG Unlock Individual Brilliance – Tactical Theory
Dribbling has long been one of football’s most eye-catching actions, a burst of creativity capable of shifting momentum in an instant. This tactical analysis examines how dribbling serves as a strategic mechanism within various systems and styles of play, focusing on the roles of Rafael Leão at AC Milan,
Coaching Attacking Transition Principles - Tactical Theory
In this tactical theory, we will focus on a training session that aims to create opportunities for players to work on attacking transition principles. We will encourage them to initially seek to break lines and play forward into players who have support. However, we will also encourage them to recognise
The Value of Direct Goalkeeper Distribution – Tactical Theory
With teams often electing to press high in the opposition's defensive third, having a goalkeeper with long distribution who can put the ball accurately behind the opposition's backline can cause all sorts of problems for opposing teams. With clever positioning and complementary movements by forward players,
How Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique Use Inside-Out Runs to Break Defences – Tactical Theory
In recent years, the spread of positional play has become an almost universal dogma across most of Europe's major leagues. A period embodied, primarily, by the figure of Pep Guardiola since the beginning of his career at Barcelona, with the expansion of positional play beyond Spain's