"The High Press"

[Professor Toffee]

The most boring tactic in football

 

[Goat]

Its highly effective.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

It's effective if you can sustain it. If not, you risk leaving gaps in behind too often.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Build to combat tiki taka and it worked. But teams haven't adjusted their play in possession to beat the pressing. It'll come.

 

[Nymzee]

Boring? Complete opposite for me.

 

[ronson444]

I think it’s brilliant too, stops boring tikka takka

 

[davek]

It's only sucessful if the opposition have dozy players in defence.

 

[Littlesue]

Best football to watch

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Watching Canada press the arse off Belgium was great just showing what a fraud of a manager Martinez is.

 

[cronullasharks]

Yeah beats tiki taka borefest. Though i do miss players going on mazy runs dribbling past defenders more than anything.

 

[mahermi1]

Slowly strangling the life out of Football for me, it's supposed to be a spectator sport, cheers Jurgen....

 

[PeregrineT]

Saying the high press is boring is basically saying you dont like the sport, or sport in general, or entertainment, or good.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Thought this was gonna be about journos on coke.

King Carlo absolutely knows how to beat Klopp-ball. Actually, Allardyce negated it too pretty well.

So whatever works for me.

 

[BNJ1878]

Watching Canada press the arse off Belgium was great just showing what a fraud of a manager Martinez is.

I loved it when they cut to Lukaku on the bench.

He was in complete disbelief lol

 

[MikeH72]

How can you say it’s boring to try and win the ball high up the pitch and transition straight into attack at a fast tempo?

Every semi-competent team uses some form of press in this day and age. However it requires your players to all be very fit. We can’t press or play against a press because our fitness and conditioning methods are from the Tudor times.