The more aggressive the more intense we win that ball in that very moment the more we take this
this intensity and this tempo into the counter attack
let's talk about the coaching philosophy then how would you describe the basic idea of your
playing style well as i said it's about controlling the game and in fact we have
five different situations in football in the meantime that in the end decide football games
what happens if we have the ball ourselves how do we play against defensive teams against teams that
maybe attack high or try to press us so you need to have as a coach a very clear idea of how do we
want to play if we have the ball ourselves number two is what do we want to do if the other team has
got the ball what kind of information match plan game plan do i give my players when the other team
has got the ball our idea is clear it's very very similar to my i would almost say coaching friend
Jurgen Klopp our football our red bull football is heavy metal rock and roll and it's not slow
walls you know if i mean i we hate square passes back passes just having the ball ourselves as la
paula doesn't make sense and then we have to the the the two situations of transition what happens
in the very moment when we lose the ball and what happens in the very moment when we win the ball
this is number three and number four and then of course you have the set pieces also highly
important more than thirty percent of all the goals are being scored after set pieces if we are
honest as football coaches what does that mean if thirty 30 of all the goals are being scored after
set pieces how much of how much percentage of our training time should we invest in set pieces
if 30 of all the goals are being scored after set pieces how much
of our training time should we invest into set pieces
huh 30 percent let's be honest with ourselves do we do we invest 30 percent of our training time
into set pieces offensive defensive corner kicks free kicks even throw ins we are not
and yeah so those are the five situations and all the top teams if you look into the last
two or three years of the champions league winning teams they were in all five areas
above average if not top and i'm convinced in the future that if you want to win titles if
you want to win the champions league if you win want to win the world cup with the national team
you have to make sure that in all those five areas you are you are state of art
on the tactics transition it's a key word you've used it a few times why is it so important
well as we said i mean in the very moment you win the ball
and again it depends how you want to play yourself we spoke about Liverpool about Jurgen
Klopp we spoke about Leipzig the way that we played with Leipzig or with salzburg now
it's about putting the other team under pressure no matter if it's high up the higher up the better
but wherever the ball is we try to win the ball back and we also found out that it's not only
about where we win the ball back obviously the higher up we win the ball back the closer the
distance to the other team's goal keeper and goal and the higher up we win the ball
the less players the other team have at that very moment behind the ball to prevent us from creating
a chance or to score but we also found out that it's not only about the the the location where
we win the ball it's also about the intensity the more aggressive the more intense we win that ball
in that very moment the more we take this this intensity and this tempo into the counter attack
so that means the more intense we win the ball the bigger the chance that we create from this
and for example in in the last year when we were coaching leipzig two and a half years ago
out of 75 goals we scored more than 60 we scored after winning the ball 10 seconds before
and the same is true with um with the um with uh winning the ball back
or when when we lose the ball and winning the ball back the same is true i mean if we know
that the biggest chance is to win the ball within eight seconds it makes sense to not
waste time so all the players around the ball have to try and win the ball back and then also
highly important we saw that in our first first presentation today it's
rest defense because if you play aggressive high pressing you need to make sure that the
defenders no matter if you play with two or three central defenders that they make sure that the
the only one or two players that the other team has got up front that they are being marked
they have to be closely marked because those two players or this one player is the only player that
might be able to if we allow them to control the ball that we get the counter attack ourselves and
this is about rest defense this is also nothing less than a train the brain issue because it's
very easy to to for a central defender they don't necessarily need to be fast in order to do that to
mark when the ball is still at the other team's 6 16 yard box to mark this one or two players very
closely even mark through mark ahead of them and the other one like a sandwich mark behind him and
this is what we call rest defense and this is also for me a very important thing that you also train
this not only tell the players that they should do it but also train it in the training sessions
you