This is what i believe in i think this is what we believe in and it's um it doesn't necessarily make
it the right way i don't want to come across like i have it all figured out but this is the way that
we think this is the way that we do things and and we try to do that to the best of our abilities
there's really a question here about analysis which i really like from pedro elias
i'd like to ask about Jesse's opinion on match analysis both opponents and your own team
how does the staff coordinate this work and how many people are responsible for these roles
yeah we have um we really value our video analysts and our data analysts
so we have a vast network um and we have you know these coaches are everywhere around europe
now the Bayern Munich video analyst is a red bull analyst the uh southampton the you could go to psv
you there's there's so many clubs now that have uh used our analysts because they're
trying to tilt a little bit more to playing our football um and in general when we're looking
at opponents and it's one of the things i like the most about uh playing in champions league is
you have to have a really good match plan when you play against the best teams
so we use our principles and and our ideas of how we play football and then we we form tactics and
and match plans around how we try to attack certain things with the ball where we try to
attack against the ball and what we try to achieve so um that winds up being really important and and
actually a lot of fun so yeah the the combination of uh our analysts our match plans our principles
and putting them all together so that against their best opponents you give yourself a chance
we've got a really good question here um from chris summersell that you may or may not choose
to answer um but we've talked a lot about the way that your teams give other teams problems but are
there any particular styles of play that your teams have had problems with and have you dealt
with this you know what's interesting is even when i showed that data uh from our our our running
data from from the game that was from inside our league and as good as the games are in champions
league actually the intensity of the running intensity we experience in our league here in
austria is at a higher level than even what we're playing in champions league so i'm not saying that
the austria the austrian league is clearly not as good as champions league or premier league
but in terms of the intensity at which the game is played red bull football has had such a big
impact on football overall in austria that games are played with major major intensity um that
challenges us at times um you know but obviously what we find in champions league is even more
than that is the quality of attacking players playing against atletico madrid they like to
play deeper in a block and so for us to try to break them down but also not allow them
to catch us on the counter just think about again what i said about strategy actually now they are
achieved there by sitting deeper they're inviting us to play more with the ball
and then they're waiting for us to lose it or for them to win it and then attack us with transition
in the other direction so strategically they're trying to combat what we're trying to achieve and
do to us what we're trying to do to them so yeah then you're you're trying to now figure out okay
what do we want to do with the ball what areas do we want to attack what areas do we want to
make sure we protect how do we still find a way to do what we want to do on the day
in the end we didn't do it well enough maybe next season um actually there's a question
from yagi's czech em i hope i pronounced that right um you asked quite simply what is the
best tactical solution to score against low block defending so one thing is is is counter pressing
um what we find is again when even when we saw that video that i showed when we counter pressed
is a lot of times um when teams win the ball back they get relaxed or they feel like they're back
in control of the game so sometimes against a deep block we say that we want to play in tight spaces
and we want to play with combinations and at times we almost want to lose the ball
because then we can counter press because we're all in good spaces and we're ball orientated and
when we win the ball we can play very vertically and the other team is relaxed for a moment and we
can catch him that way so that's still a tactic that we use and then there's other things that
we try to do with manipulating possession and finding different areas and chip balls behind the
behind the opponent but but the counter pressing still winds up being an important strategy
against a low block team that's really interesting actually on that note russell pope comes in with
does fixture congestion which is obviously very very apt to where we are in a minute
does fixture congestion affect your high pressing style is there an extra risk of injury that you
you know are you altering the manners in which you press as a result of that concern
you know so like you saw even in the videos that sometimes were a little bit more compact
sometimes we're a little bit higher um sometimes we're controlling the rhythm at which the game
is played but we what we do with the ball and without the ball and then i rotate players a lot
like i believe in a big i believe in a big roster and especially when you coach young players you
if you want them if you want your young players to be brave then guess who has to be the bravest
the coach so i have to engage and sometimes take risks with younger players on the pitch
but what i found is that more often than not i'm i'm incredibly rewarded by what these players
can deliver so we rotate when we here in germany they call when you play three games in a week they
call it an english revolca an english week because we know that's how everybody plays
there so much but it's important to rotate have fresh legs get the balance right within the team
and again give young players chances to play it's the only way they can develop
on on the topic of young players we've had actually a few questions uh about the ideas
of teaching pressing and counter pressing with younger players so uh do you implement
the same the same tactics and strategies in your academy and one in here from matthew lowe
says how how would you recommend teaching pressing and council pressing at youth level
principles cues types of activities that can be used to develop this type of football so first
of all i mean one of the reasons why we love young players is not just because they're adaptable and
they grow so quickly but we need young legs on the pitch because they can usually run you know faster
longer and more repetitively than older legs i learned that as an older player um and then you
know we talked when we were shaping the new york red bulls academy we were talking a lot about okay
how much do we want to build the game up and teach them technically how to
uh manipulate the ball and tactically how to be with the ball before we're teaching them to break
it down and run against the ball and and win duels and win and rhine gain and these kinds of things
but i find that it's about controlling the the environment right like ultimately
in training what we're doing is trying to raise the speed of play by how big the spaces are by
what the numbers are by how many neutrals what the rules are and then ultimately their talents
are going to be raised a little bit with the ball against the ball everything and then it's
our job as coaches again to raise the intensity in the level at which they're playing and almost
make it make it over their heads so they react and grow and get better so i actually find that
the these with the ball against the ball themes and how you manage them and manipulate them within
how you create your training sessions that they work together right and that's part of the skill
of a coach in training is understanding how to manipulate training so without always we we say
a lot that if a 14 year old is good he needs to train with 16 year olds okay that's a way of
artificially creating that but the best young coaches and the best professional coaches are
able to do that within a training session by how they manipulate rules regulations spaces numbers
to get that so um that's one of the ways that we really also create development in speed of
thought is by manipulating training we've talked a lot about about teams pressing but
lewiston woody comes in with this one which is a good one people talk about the press resistance
of football players now particularly with the wave of current passing trends how can a players
and can a player's press resistance be measured or quantified or should it be or is it just
a subjective concept i'm not familiar with press resistance um however i i how i would
interpret that is the efficiency at which their pressing is is functional or or in which it works
and we measure that we measure by how many times they win balls how many how many um attacks they
have on the opponent um how many times they're in the the zone to to help be the the second wave of
players so and then we we positionally have goals that we try to have them hit every game and then
we compare them against each other and it winds up almost being a fun competition within when we post
at the end of the game all of our statistics and we often we have statistics that everyone
measures or that certain companies measure and use and then we have our own that our analysts
use and then we post those after every game and there's often banter in the locker room which is
ideally what we want we want them to be driven internally to to do the things we want to to
feel the the the way we want to play and i think you know what we find in this in general is as
much as this is a difficult way of playing and it requires a big physical output there's also an um
a contagiousness to the feeling of overwhelming the opponent by outrunning them by
by pressing them by giving them no time on the ball by eliminating the things that they want to
try to achieve and that usually gets spread throughout the team and it becomes bigger and
bigger and bigger so um yeah that's part of the fun i think this is actually this is my
own question but bearing in mind what you just described and the importance of pressing and
and the importance of players having that desire and that and that willing to run do you look at a
player do you think now that a player like mesut ozil who of course is argued about all the time
not particularly renowned for that being part of his game is there still a role in football
for a player like him yes i mean but again for any player i think what's important is
does his style of play fit the style play of what the club is trying to achieve or what the
coach is trying to achieve so i mean i think mesut ozil for example is an incredibly talented player
whose career was totally sidetracked and sadly so because you know when he was at his best
he was a he was a pleasure to watch um and certainly very effective but then now as as
the intensity in in england grew and grew and grew then it became more and more difficult
for for mesut to be good at the things that he does could he have found a trainer that
that still carved out a role for him potentially so and maybe he'll find that in turkey now but but
again any you know outside of the world's greatest players like ronaldo and messi these kinds of
players can almost play in any any type of style but certainly when you look at the way we play
we're not gonna be going after a player like leno messi it just doesn't make sense right and that's
not saying anything against lionel messi because he's the best player in the history of the world
but i think for a coach for a player for anyone finding the right fit and making sure that the
everything is aligned like i've said before is what dictates success of the individual
in the group we have one one last question for one last question before we have to wrap up um
it feels appropriate that we end it with uh with a question about red bull and terminology as that
play such a such a large part today marco van der heider comes in i hear you speak about against the
ball rather than defending when pressing you use the word attacking when you talk about pressing is
this done deliberately is this red bull vocabulary is this your vocabulary attacking is always
um yeah i mean again um we would we use sometimes um uh in terminology german it would be
uh we that we don't say paul possession and against the ball we say attacking with the
ball and attacking against the ball because that is it's important again to match the tactics with
the mentality right and the more that we are understanding and the more that we are clear
with the strategy what we're trying to achieve the mentality the togetherness on and off the pitch
the clear that we are with each other about our identity the easier it is for everybody to fulfill
their roles within whatever role they have here in our club so um and i and i think that the pla
again the players really feel a power to the to the sense that there's a togetherness on the
pitch tactically and meant and mentally and and that power is freeze them frees them to
be their best frees them to go after games freeze them even in the best games against bayern munich
to to or liverpool to to show their best version of themselves now in some of these
games we've given up too many goals and almost all of them so we're always trying to manage
um our aggressiveness in the right ways but in the end this is who we are this is what i
believe in i think this is what we believe in and it's it doesn't necessarily make it the right way
i don't want to come across like i have it all figured out but this is the way that we
think this is the way that we do things and and we try to do that to the best of our abilities
you