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Red Bull Football: What makes an 'RB player' & Does it work in the Premier League?

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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Keeping the Ball Longer Is the Only Way to Win the Ball Back

I enjoy seeing a really well-engineered press, but I think you have your whole style around it. It's got to be quite a counterintuitive strategy as well, right? Because the better you get at pressing, the more you win the ball back and the less pressing you then do. But if you get better at being a possession team and you keep the ball more, then you're doing more of the thing you set out to do. So I don't know if that makes sense or that's just me going over the floor. Well, it's reductionist, but you just need to have the players who have the technical quality to actually implement it when you do win the

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