Improving decision making will lessen mistakes
Tottenham must look to improving the decision-making process of players to improve results and that will involve overload training, a relatively new concept in football coaching.
Dead ball skills are one thing but making decisions in game situations is perhaps more important than developing a particular skill. This is at least an area we work on, but I'm not sure we work but what we have to avoid is a head coach who merely says do this in this situation, a player must be able to think for themselves, make decisions themselves and that comes with overload training.
You make players make decisions as if in game situations and then you add to the decisions they must make. By adding more and more decisions players learn to process options faster and thus make a decision quicker. It may be that a player has two pass options so you add another, then another, he has to then assess not just the pass, but what the opposition will do with each of his passing options to play the ball that will have the best outcome for the team in the next phase of play, not just his initial pass.
We have seen far too often a player playing an easy pass, but the receiver then has little or no options. Kyle Walker against Liverpool at Anfield comes to mind when a disastrous back=pass resulted in Lloris failing to effect a clearance and Liverpool scoring. The error, or initial error, was passing the ball to Walker in the first place, he received the ball with few options and ideally shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place.
One bad choice of pass simply resulted in a series of errors as players tried to play their way out of trouble. The situation got increasingly worse. it's a tactic we try to use on the opposition, that is how a high-pressing system works, you are trying to force the opposition to make the passes they don't want to make. it is in these type of situations where a player has to be able to think quickly, weigh up all the options and pick the most beneficial pass for the next phase of play rather than simply playing a short successful pass that puts the side in a more difficult situation.
The full-backs have the problem of the side line being an extra defender for the opposition, his options are forward backward or infield. If you are playing along the floor as all teams want to do then one player cuts out the forward p[ass leaving only infield options or backward. You need fewer players to defend that situation and put pressure on the opposition than if they have the ball in the centre of the park able can pass it anywhere.
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Dead ball skills are one thing but making decisions in game situations is perhaps more important than developing a particular skill. This is at least an area we work on, but I'm not sure we work but what we have to avoid is a head coach who merely says do this in this situation, a player must be able to think for themselves, make decisions themselves and that comes with overload training.
You make players make decisions as if in game situations and then you add to the decisions they must make. By adding more and more decisions players learn to process options faster and thus make a decision quicker. It may be that a player has two pass options so you add another, then another, he has to then assess not just the pass, but what the opposition will do with each of his passing options to play the ball that will have the best outcome for the team in the next phase of play, not just his initial pass.
We have seen far too often a player playing an easy pass, but the receiver then has little or no options. Kyle Walker against Liverpool at Anfield comes to mind when a disastrous back=pass resulted in Lloris failing to effect a clearance and Liverpool scoring. The error, or initial error, was passing the ball to Walker in the first place, he received the ball with few options and ideally shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place.
One bad choice of pass simply resulted in a series of errors as players tried to play their way out of trouble. The situation got increasingly worse. it's a tactic we try to use on the opposition, that is how a high-pressing system works, you are trying to force the opposition to make the passes they don't want to make. it is in these type of situations where a player has to be able to think quickly, weigh up all the options and pick the most beneficial pass for the next phase of play rather than simply playing a short successful pass that puts the side in a more difficult situation.
The full-backs have the problem of the side line being an extra defender for the opposition, his options are forward backward or infield. If you are playing along the floor as all teams want to do then one player cuts out the forward p[ass leaving only infield options or backward. You need fewer players to defend that situation and put pressure on the opposition than if they have the ball in the centre of the park able can pass it anywhere.
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You can help support THBN by buying your sporting goods through the following links.
If you need football boots for the new season try the SALE NOW ON at Lovell Soccer
If you need a new Tottenham shirt or sportswear try Kitbag Ltd
If you want an authentic autographed shirt or memorabilia try Icons
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