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Well, hello coaches. Welcome back to part three. Finally, part three of this three-part series about how to play out from the back from your keeper in 9v9,
broken down by how many players the team who's trying to get the ball from you is pressing. So, we've done teams in formations when they press with one
player. We've done teams in formations that press with two players. And in this last set of this video, we're doing teams that press with three players. The
most common pressure, the most common formation that you're gonna see in 99 most of the time is this one here, the 323. If a team is pressing with three,
there are there is some other guard ones out there. I've seen a 233 at least in theory, but most towns don't play that because it's really it leaves your your
back lines acceptable. I have a whole video series on all different formations. But most commonly, if you're going to be playing against teams and they're pressing with three, it's going
to look like this. So, what we'll see in this upcoming video is again the third part of the part one and part two. If you've missed those other two parts, go
back and watch. If you've been doing with your team week one and week two, that's fantastic. Now, this is week three. We're going to work on what we
can do when teams press with three. and more importantly, as I've said before, helping your teams understand what's behind that line of three that they can take advantage of if they can move that
ball. So, let's go watch the video uh during the practice, and I'll see you at the end for wrap-up. So, now we'll see here that we're pressing with three. So,
again, I only had four pressing players.
So, my 16-year-old assumed the role of the two players in the middle with one, you know, being one person. And we got three players pressed up front. It's
hard to see, but this player on the right here, this player right here happens to be just wearing his penny over his head for well, that's what
sixth graders do, sixth grade boys, right? So, we're pressing with three.
So, when we're pressing with three, most of the time we're seeing a 323. That's pretty much the only formation that naturally has three players up in front.
And so, again, we then talk about if there are three players pressing and we can bypass that pressure. We have a 5v2 in the middle of the field. How can we
exploit that? So, there's two different things that we can do here. You can see here in this formation now on the blue team, the six has now been inverted and
the two eights have dropped down in this motion here because the idea is when my team recognizes that they're pressing with three because we've practiced this a bunch of times, they now recognize
when that situation happens, they now call to invert themselves and they do it. And what does that do? It brings the two eights down into the pockets of
space between the three pressing players to now give new options when we're playing out of the back because press being pressed by three can be really difficult because now in the back two
center backs and a keeper that's 1v1 across the back. So our numerical advantage disappears and if we just have that six there it's 3v4 which is much
more risky. when we bring the 28s down, at least it's 5v3, which again isn't great, but again, it does give us some more options and numbers. And if we can
get past that initial three, we instantly have a 5v2 in the middle of the field. And that's what we're trying to exploit. And again, we're then trying
to manipulate the pressing players. If my center backs press out wide and the wide pressing players don't follow, then that makes it easy to play the ball out
wide and play a ball out to the wide player or to one of the eights because they're now only, you know, covered by one player. If they do follow out, it
now gives us big gaps between those pressing players that we can play into those inverted eights that have dropped down and we could play inside and through their press. And again, now
we're into the midfield. We're 5v2 going forward. So, in this situation, we're just going to um we're going to play out wide. There's enough of a gap there. My eight as
they're supposed to is now dropping into the gap between there. So, now they receive that pass from the center back because that's where the gap is. They
can turn and go up the field. So, let's just watch this video clip.
>> That press that ball is kind of dangerous, but you see the eight is dropped right into the gap there and played out wide. And again, we've we've
let them play for a little bit, just kind of get through the patterns of play because it is a good uh way to go through that. But again,
we're not a great pass out from the keeper to the center back. Put them under a lot of pressure by putting the ball way in front of him, closer to the
pressure. But the eight reacted really well to get into that gap, as you can see in the diagram, receive that ball, and then be able to play out uh to the
wide area. So, in this example, this is a great uh example of how the keeper has to just now be another field player.
You're going to play this ball out wide to the left center back again, but this time because of the way the ball is and the way the pressure is coming, he
doesn't have the option to play straight out either to the wide player to the eight. So, he plays back to the keeper who steps up and then plays that ball
out to that yellow eight that's been inverted there into that space so that now he can turn and go up the field. So, let's take a watch. So you can see the
center back is really out wide, but the pressure cuts off that eight option.
Keeper plays a nice chip ball into space to let that eight get onto it before his 16-year-old brother beats up on him and takes the ball away from him. But again,
it's a good good read by the keeper to step into that space because the eight, the pass into the eight was taken away by a good pressing angle. He became the
new option to then be able to play that ball out of pressure past the line of three into a space that the eight could easily turn into and go away. So even
with pressing with three, there are opportunities where the keeper can play direct out and through the middle. So like when teams are pressing with two and the six could drop into that gap of
space and the ball can just be played straight in through them, cutting out that players of two, you can do the same thing now that the eights have inverted
are in those gaps between the three pressing players. There are opportunities where you can play straight through the press with one pass to the eight to then turn and go. It's
very straightforward and simple, but it's quite effective. If that's what they're giving you, then that's what you take. So, watch this clip here.
You can see there's a big space because they're not even. So, now he just plays that ball straight into the eight. He lets it go for one of the other the
other eight that come over and grab hold of the ball. But you can see the concept pretty clearly in terms of being able to just play that ball straight through
that press with one pass, taking three players out of the play, turn, and go up the field. And in this last example, pressing with three, we're going to see
basically ball go out to the wide center back, pressure come in, which opens up a gap between the center pressing player and that right-sided pressing player. As
we look at the graphic here, back to the keeper, who then has a free shot to play out to the wing. His pass isn't great here, but again, still learning. But you
can get the concept behind this is sometimes when the play goes out, the keeper can now gets a channel that can now play a longer ball out wide to hit a
winger in space to get up the field. So you see here they're getting set.
That player is really sitting on that center back. That center back on the right does not get as wide as the one on the left. So the pressure comes in. He
can't turn and play. Now if played correctly, that ball would have gone right up the gap as in the diagram and away we go. They still rescue it, which
again is great. It's this is real world, right? The kids are still learning how to do it and they took what they had and figured it out and made it work. But
again, you can see we're giving them all these options to try these do these things based on what it is we looked at while they're learning what the other
teams are set up as as we go forward.
Okay. Well, then that wraps up the full series of playing out from the back in 9B9 uh the practice edition. We've done pressed with one, pressed with two, and
then this video now we've done press with three. I really encourage you if you've missed any of the other previous videos to go back. I'm going to make a
separate playlist just of the three videos as well, and it will also be in my 99 playlist. But now, I hope that you have the tools to be able to go to your
practices and have ideas about how to get your teams to understand not just what to do when the ball gets kicked the first time, but what their options are
beyond the first line and how you can manipulate the other team's movements and spacings by the way you maneuver and manipulate your players to give yourself some advantages. As you saw in that
video in the 323, if you can get past that first line of pressure, a lot of times your midfield is outnumbering that two in the midfield with, you know, in
my situation, 5v2. That's a great situation to have when you've bypassed the the middle of the uh the that's a great situation to have when you've bypassed the first line of pressure
sometimes with just one pass. So again, getting your team to understand and being able to recognize this. When we get pressed with three, my team now calls for the inversion of the two
midfielders and the six to get them to be in these gaps. I don't even have to do it anymore, and that's incredibly satisfying. So, I hope you found these
videos useful. Like, subscribe, and share with your fellow coaches. And until next time, I hope you're having a great time out in the fields. Bye-bye.
