[brocksolid]

Had some great advice from Xulu the other day, and have already some instant results in creating a more effective 4-4-2 system. What i now need to nail down is the correct way to press in a 4-4-2, without getting passed around like a bunch of headless chickens.

I play fairly neutrally, so all the advice so far I have had to date is to keep the settings on mixed. I find though that if I do this we just get passed through as we have minimal pressure on the ball. Alternatively if I put the pressing too high the success rate of winning the ball back is lower than 50%.

In reading the Tactics Bible on the site, it doesnt speak specifically of how to build pressing as a unit. It really only touches on pressing within a back 4.

Does anyone have any advice on how to effectively press the ball from the front, taking into consideration the knock on effect of the whole team shape?

[Xulu]

This thread provides a few examples. Levo put up a featured article for the mainsite awhile ago here.

Pressing is a hard thing to do, especially at lower levels. A lot of LLaMas like to press very little and keep a compact shape. In a 4-4-2, this is accomplished with two banks of four and maybe a forward dropping a little deeper to help.