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Gegenpressing


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Its the latest buzz word to find its way into english football. The name has been attributed to the style of football klopp played at Dortmund which basically revolved around pressing the opponent high up the pitch and getting the off them and do this for the duration of the game with no let up. The full throttle football klopp alluded to in his press conference.

 

I ve read a few journos since who think he ll struggle to maintain this without a winter break for the players to recover. Klopps dortmund team ran on average 1-2 kms per game more than this liverpool team but hopefully that wont be a problem.

 

This high press concept will be familiar to a lot of the players who ve been here since 13-14. It wasa huge part of our success but doing it for 90 mins as opposed to 20-30 mins and getting a few goals then sitting back and trying to counter is different than 90 mins of gegenpressing.

 

Do you think he ll fully implement it or will it have evolved into a more diluted version?

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Gegenpressing translates to "against-pressing", but it actually means counter-pressing. Instead of pressing the opponent's buildup play, you press their counter-attacks.

 

Everyone has to do it and the defensive line has to be high instead of deep. Hopefully this means the end of Skrtel. Of course he'll have to adapt it, but the basic principles are sound and should be done far more in British football. 

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He won't implement it immediately, even though he's talked about full throttle football. I think it'll be closer to our own 2013/14 version with less focus on possession and more on intensity and tempo, with hopefully far greater defensive solidity.

 

He didn't implement full throttle football from the off at Dortmund either. Rather, they evolved and became capable of implementing it. In any case, even Dortmund didn't do it for a full 90 minutes, it was done in bursts instead.

 

I read about how Guardiola introduced his pressing style at Barcelona, and his basic idea centred around possession and always providing passing options in order to tire out their opponents. However, when the opposition eventually got the ball back, he knew they'd be looking to make their small possession count by trying to initiate opportunities that just aren't there, so he told his players to hunt in packs of 2 and 3 and target the player who was about to receive the ball, because that player will be focussed on receiving the ball therefore minimising his field of vision at that very moment, limiting his passing options. He will either lose it himself, get dispossessed or be unable to do anything threatening with it. Barcelona didn't do it over the full 90 minutes either.

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Gegenpressing translates to "against-pressing", but it actually means counter-pressing. Instead of pressing the opponent's buildup play, you press their counter-attacks.

 

Everyone has to do it and the defensive line has to be high instead of deep. Hopefully this means the end of Skrtel. Of course he'll have to adapt it, but the basic principles are sound and should be done far more in British football.

We had gegenpressing years ago, he was called Ian Rush...

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Ah fuck, the British press have concerns about Klopp's ability to implement a tactical shift without having a winter break, I hope somebody has told Klopp about it or we'll be fucked.

 

Interestingly I can't see us playing this way without a high energy dm and at least one quick cb but Dortmund had Kehl  at DM and Hummels and Subotic aren't the quickest, are they?

 

  

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