The best counterpress is often the one a team decides not to make
Compactness is measured across the pitch when it should be measured up it
Half-spaces are a word we use to avoid saying receive on the half-turn
PPDA punishes the team that is winning
A low block is only as good as the way you get out of it
A team full of heroic recovery runs is a team with a structural problem
Two systems will tell your club two different numbers for the same run
Rotation happens where it is cheapest, not where it is needed
A pressing trigger should be a body, not a place on the pitch
The offside line is really set by the goalkeeper
Rest attack is the transition nobody rehearses
The seam between two zones is where defences actually break
The underlap is the better run and the overlap survives because it is easier to teach
Cutting a passing lane is a body shape problem, not a positioning one
Peak decibels measure the goal, not the atmosphere
Substitutes carry the sharpest workload nobody tracks
An inverted full back is a defensive signing pretending to be a creative one
