Martin Raphael
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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Also, people who... I wanted to say that this vagueness and this late decision kind of stuff, this is also something that makes great pressing.
A lot of really good ball recoveries, when you don't just destroy what the opponent can do and you get into one-on-one duels, but when you have actually great interceptions and can make great counterattacks,
A lot of this is when players are like in between two options.
And what pressing systems tend to do is that you want to set up the team in a way that everybody knows who they are defending.
It's not necessarily man-marking all the time, but it's man-oriented in the situation.
It's like you cover this guy, you cover this guy, you cover that guy, because that's clear, that's simple.
When you look at club teams, that's sometimes the case, but not all the time.
It's a lot of players like swimming, like floating between multiple options, and they make very late decisions when to snap, when to get the opponent.
Like in this 4-3-3, in this Liverpool 4-3-3, there was not a single player who was defending the opponent's 6th.
Which is really interesting.
Like, usually this is a key thing of pressing that you have to control the six.
If they are able to play to the six, your pressing is probably going to break.
And when we look at one of the best pressing teams ever, we see that they don't have a clear responsibility for the six, but they...
they swarm around them and they, they pick him out very late and they try to defend them in cover shadow.
And this is, it's, it's like, if you, if you look at them and you try to describe how do they defend the six, you probably tend to use vague terms like, um, I don't know.
They just, uh,
they don't cover him they are like somehow they eat him up they like control the space around him which is like what does controlling space really mean you tend to go into vague terms and then you need to if you go into vague terms this also means you should probably look a little bit closer and find the complexity behind it
To make it clear.
And this is where vagueness is really used in human communication.
That we have the feeling, we have a complex intuitive feeling of something that works in a certain way.
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