@coach_7777: The low block in the 5-3-2 – it does not defend the goal ⚽ A low block is not fear. It is a decision about where you want to win the game: five at the back, three in midfield, two up front, and the whole block only twenty five metres deep and thirty five metres wide – on a pitch that is sixty eight metres wide. That sounds like a mistake, and it is the single most important sentence about low blocks: a block never defends the whole width. It shifts. On the far side your wing back is not a wing back any more – he tucks in and becomes a third centre back, and five in a line become four on the ball and one spare. The three in midfield are not marking players, they are defending passing lanes: inside between them is a mistake, around the outside is allowed. You only step out on a signal. And the real danger is not the pass through the middle – it is the cross and the second ball. Defend only what is in front of you and you lose the game on the edge of the box. And the part most teams forget: the two strikers stay up. Always. A block with no way out is not a plan, it is a siege. #football #Soccer #tactics #lowblock #532 #defending #coaching

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