The Importance of Zone Presses in Football

I think it also is probably quite awkward to try and exploit compared to other setups because you look at where the bodies are congested sort of in the central area of the pitch. I guess teams would rather sort of press 2v3 in that first line and be more content with that than a ball orientated press like Arsenal did on Sunday. It's hard to press effectively against that sort of shape particularly when teams want to go man for man now. There's another aspect where I can see some way of being able to exploit these box midfields and one of them is exploiting transitional moments. We're going to start seeing more and more teams recognizing what these transitional roots and moments look