Well, we got a breakdown. What happened will eat tonight is
tremendous Victory against Chelsea Football Club. We see
Jesse marsch American manager of this club. Celebrating
a truly great goal and a brilliant performance but Tim
Howard
we're going to look at how they did it. That was extraordinary
the way that Leeds United played this game against
Chelsea. A very very good topside in the Premier League
but the the energy,
the teamwork, the pressing was
Absolutely outstanding on the day and we're going to start by
showing kind of a generalized clip that we saw a type of
play, we saw from Leeds throughout and I think it's
a great example of just a team being organized, being on
the same page,
of course, initially here, Tim leads, a trying to play
the trying to possess
but when the ball breaks down
then turned into something very different unique
and you need energy more than energy, you need a buy-in
from Jesse Marsh. He, he needs his players
to buy into the idea.
That you're going to press the man in front of you and that
the player behind you is going to support you at all times.
Yeah and I just like there's so many examples here of you know
you're going to see a kind of a big space here, right? And
they're going to give the ball away least, watch the leads
players,
just kind of collapse in
on those. Chelsea players surrounding in, Dan James
number 20, does it so so well, and that's one part of
the press didn't work, right? We're going to go to face to of
pressing. The ball is on the other side
and the same thing where everybody's coming in.
Get involved in the Press Tim and
and that's phase. Two didn't win the ball back
and goalkeeper. We know that you made a mistake later on
we'll show you.
This is phase three of the same thing of a press.
Now we just don't see that very often. I
run this again in a minute to pick out a couple of points
but it's like, you know, that there's so many and of course
when they win the ball, they try and play. And again, you
know, they'll try and
and
and win the ball back. But just just on a couple of things,
we've kind of shown how it is multiple phases. Tim and I just
want to
And just highlight
the front players involved in all this.
And I just think the two and we can see them right here. This,
two players that I just think deserve special mention, it's
Rodrigo and get
here and done James
and throughout this multiple phase of pressing.
They go from one side, to the other side to try and win
the ball back
and to hound them. And when you watch the white jerseys,
they're always in perpetual motion. They're always moving
forward. If you wrote back just a second, And mostly
this is a key principle, right? There's fine.
This is a key principle
of Jesse marsch defensive system.
The your man is the man in front of you, that's it.
There's no passing on. So when you watch Christensen,
he's a long ways, not even an inch screen yet, and this is
a Defender to its Defenders, is why away from his own goal. His
man is always the man it's in front of him, no matter what.
So, we've got a lot of ground to make up and it'll happen again.
Yeah, so brief to stop it here.
You'll see, Robin cock come all the way in Raheem Sterling's
all way. Back in his end. Robin cock doesn't pass him on.
There's no one to pass him to his responsibilities as the man
in front of him. Always running
through the ball and straight lines to that show centre-back
coming like 25 yards out from golf. So there's a trust there
and a knowledge that everybody. It doesn't matter. If your
Defender, you're going to go to the possible fuel the nearest
garbage, right?
And again what is tremendous work right now? Let's just skip
to the goal.
One of their goals that again was a
Example of this teaming
and Brendan Aronson,
a new signing into the club Jesse Marcel. What with him
before our be Salzburg, I thought was outstanding in
their game
and you know, this kind of typifies what we saw
leads have the ball
Aronson, gives away
gives a ball away.
And I just in fact, before we get to that Shore gold piece.
Again, I'm not go back to Dan James number 20, you can see
him,
I mean talk about
grooved with the intention of. When we give the ball, I just
watch his reaction when the ball gets cut out. By Chelsea.
That does those hands up. Doesn't throw something on this
bone and complaining up.
And then there's this closing down to 90 that you that you
know Jesse marsch very well and I know there's something you
want to point out here.
So as he just goes that's right. Initially closed and
Aronson as you mentioned he and just Marshall have worked
together before. So he has a very good understanding of
what's of what's asked the terminology and some of
the verbiage that Jesse marsch use is
final step you. And I are so used to a lot of players
getting to the ball closing on space but jockeying,
there isn't the term. He used this final step,
so as Errands and thinks the ball is going to get cleared.
He tries to block it once. He realizes
that mendis dallied on the ball
he closes that. Final step is we keeps going keep going to
run through the ball always running through the ball there
and it gets his, just reward
brilliant. Brilliant goal for him. One more thing I want to
pick out here again credit to Aronson. Here is one of
the board does get knocked back to the goalkeeper.
I mean, the closest player really
to press him is Rodrigo and in this one situation. I mean he
settled in the other 31, be kind of gives up on it,
Brendan Aronson doesn't give up on it. No
and he gets adjusters order right there. Just that extra
step to come through tap-in.
I mean, I tell you it was a fun game to watch
great work by Jesse Marsh is team, is really starting to
look like his team now with his players in selected and just
a brilliant example of pressing and Team spirit to be fair.
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