How Do Utd Beat The High Press?

[Teja]

I think we have a very static structure when playing out from the back so it's easy for opposition to setup to counter that. Some more dynamism around where players are positioned and who drops deep / who goes forward will go a long way.

Some teams like Pool / City are very good at turning the high press on/off. Against these teams you just lump it forward and counterpress yourself. Against bottom feeder PL teams we should really be able to play it out.

 

[Adnan]

Adnan, do you have a video of Salzburg's structural play against a pressing team. Easier to maintain it against weaker opposition who is not pressing.

The below vid is a game between Marco Rose's Gladbach vs Bayern where both teams pressed high. Bayern had the upper hand in the first half and made it difficult for Gladbach from playing out from the back. But Rose identified the problem and switched things up in the second half and turned the tables on Bayern who struggled to create anything meaningful in the second half. And eventhough Bayern took the lead, Gladbach came back and won the game which was lucky sure in the context of the whole game, but the difference was Marco Rose, whose tactical switch made life very difficult for Bayern's backline to advance play in the first phase of the build-up. And he did that with inferior players which is a testament to the mans tactical nous/know-how.

So against Bayern, a team with much better players, Rose had to find solutions to his teams difficulty in beating the press in the second half and he did that by cutting off the half spaces which made life very difficult for Bayern's backline and affected their high pressure which gave Gladbach control and they took advantage winning 2-1..