Pressing

Pressing game or German pressure game is a game tactical variant in sports , especially in football . Pressing is called the (short-term, longer or permanent) running up against the opposing player (s) in charge of the ball, in which all parts of the team except the goalkeeper participate alternately, this running up can take place in equal numbers or in excess.

The basic idea is to give the opponent as little time as possible, to build up his game calmly and in a controlled manner, and thus to force him to make mistakes or to force him into certain safe areas (e.g. on the outside). The pressure game begins by disrupting and fighting the opposing attack or attempted attack early on in the opposing half, which is also known as fore checking . Prerequisites for pressing are a high willingness to run on the part of the players, dynamism and appropriate stamina.

The term itself is derived from the English word to press for under pressure, but is not used synonymously for the German meaning of the word.

In recent years, pressing has been supplemented by the term counter- pressing , which was mainly coined by Jürgen Klopp and his work at Borussia Dortmund . Under counter pressing is pressing understood by the direct loss of the ball, so the fast switching characteristics of attack on defense. A player who loses the ball in the offensive movement must therefore directly disturb and fight the new ball-bearing player. The less widely used synonym counter-pressing (see. Also English. Counter Pressing , which combines aspects of the two German terms) suggests the opposite Pressings on the (main) functional origin, namely counter to prevent out.

See also

• Tactics (soccer)

Web links

Wiktionary: Pressing  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Peter: Report on a lecture at the International Trainer Congress 2012: Pressing in football: Tactical variants in analysis and comparison . In: Website of the Association of German Football Teachers . Accessed July 8, 2014 (PDF; 1.6 MB).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ralf Peter: Pressing in football: Tactical variants in analysis and comparison . Lecture at the International Trainer Congress 2012. Accessed July 9, 2014 (video on YouTube ).
3. ↑ Pressing on the Duden website . Retrieved July 9, 2014.
4. ↑ Differences and types of coverage in counter-pressing. Escher, Maric, Rafelt, Rieke & Co. Spielverlagerung GbR, January 4, 2013, accessed on September 25, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Rene Maric: tactics Theory: counter pressing (1). abseits.at, October 1, 2014, accessed on March 5, 2015 : “This is why this style of play is also called“ counterpressing ”and not“ counterpressing ”in English or in Spain and Italy; in the end, the opposing counterattack is pressed. "