This is also positioned last as a way to encourage players’ restraint and not to lunge into a tackle, being easily beat and out of position which is easy to do when patience is out the window. Picking the appropriate time to go for the ball to most likely produce a turnover is essential and the least covered in my experience because it deals with patience. Third is Contain and is meant to encourage containing the ball carrier to either allow the defenders teammates to get into shape or maintain the pressure needed to win the ball back through a bad pass or a fumble with the ball.įourth, – Tackle – is for the last step if Containing doesn’t produce a turnover of possession. This is the familiar sprint and then drop your body position to begin what is the third step. ![]() Second is Approach meant to encourage – if the proper conditions are met – a quick approach to the ball carrier to slow or stop the forward movement of the opponent with the ball. Simply, It stands for Re-cover, Approach, Contain, Tackle and when a game is running in real time it can help a player stay focused on their individual defensive duties.įirst, Re-Cover indicates getting into a good defensive position on the field, cutting off passing lanes, being between the player and the goal, all based on how the opponent’s attack is developing. I have come to refer to defending 1v1 through an Acronym (Acronyms help me personally remember the procession of steps in a multi step process) as Re.A.C.T. Therefore, 1v1 would be an essential component of the higher function built into pressure-cover-balance and could be considered the “basics”. Establishing the method, triggers and communication needed is fundamental, but it’s easy to desire pressure-cover-balance and emphasize it and expect it without addressing the basic 1v1 situations contained in the tactic. Defending as a team and a unit is critical in today’s game. Take for example the tactical application of Pressure-Cover-Balance. But without the basics, these higher systems fall apart and the team may not realize the success they are capable of and doubt and disbelief keep from progressing throughout a season. It is a very slippery slope to get things complicated and over involved that confuses players and overwhelms them with ideas and methodologies to adhere to in a desired system of play. ![]() The term “basics” should be reinforced as a foundation to build off of. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that this weekly periodization approach could help achieve a double conditional target, allowing a short tapering strategy to face the match with enough freshness and serving as a strategy for maintaining or optimizing players’ physical performance during the season.When referring to the basics of defending it is easy to make the topic sound simple or the player foolish for not knowing, but this is furthest from the truth. Furthermore, the horizontal alternation of the load allowed the players to maintain their fitness level during the 27-week period. There was a clear tapering strategy in the last days of the week to arrive with enough freshness to compete, shown by the decrease of the values in the 2 days before the match (15%–83% reduction, depending on the variable). ![]() Results: The results showed a different internal and external load profile for each type of session, with the load being consistently higher during matches when compared with training sessions (28.9%–94% higher), showing significant differences in all the variables. ![]() Five types of sessions were considered: strength, duration, velocity, preofficial match, and official match. For the purpose of this study, the distribution of external and internal load during a typical training microcycle, with 6 or 7 days between matches, was analyzed. Methods: Training and match data were obtained from 26 semiprofessional football players belonging to the reserve squad of a Spanish La Liga club during the 2018/19 season. Purpose: The objectives of the present study were (1) to analyze the internal and external load profile of training and competition carried out by semiprofessional football players during a 27-week period and (2) to examine the possible link between this type of periodization and players’ fitness status and their readiness to compete.
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