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Individual tactics focus on players individually in game situations. Part of the team tactics focuses on something the defenders have to do or a collaboration between players, for example, the right full-back and the right-winger. Team tactics focus on something the whole team has to do.

Part of the team, like a line of players or a collaboration between players.

In football there are three levels of tactics: The definition of tactics in the dictionary is “ an action or strategy which is carefully planned to achieve a specific end”. Īfter perceiving the situation and deciding on what to do with this information. After he made the decision, he executes it. Is the player aware of the situation? Does he have all the possible information around him to make the correct decision?īased on the information the player has, he makes a decision in a situation.

Did the pass succeed or not? But we found that to successfully analyze individual tactics for a player you have to look at it in three steps:

Often we only look at the execution in a situation. When analyzing individual tactics for a player, we look at the behavior of a player. If you make every single player individually better, then ultimately the team will be better as well. But are we putting as much effort into making players individually better? So even though you play football as a team with 11 players, it’s often one or two players that have a big influence on the result of a game. That’s why we think that we should talk about individual tactics just as much as about team tactics. Nowadays every decision can have a big impact on a game. Because a lot of games are decided with one situation. If we look at it from a coaching perspective wouldn’t it be interesting to look at all 1v1 dribbles of a player and look at when he succeeds and when he fails? To go even deeper, wouldn’t it be interesting to look at all football situations a player is involved in in a football game. So in between these minutes, he’s involved in a lot of other situations that possibly influence the game result. The second is that Neymar on average makes one dribble every 6-7 minutes a game. So even if he’s one of the best dribblers in the world already. The first thing is that just under 50% of his dribbles succeed. Think about Neymar his 1v1 dribbling skills, that’s an individual tactic that we talk about a lot, and rightfully so, fantastic dribbles that often make it into the highlights.īut if we look at the statistics of Neymar in the 2020/2021 season: 14.09 dribbles per game with a success rate of 48,9%, we notice two things. The only time we talk about individual tactics is when a player is very good or very bad at a certain game situation. Why don’t we talk about individual tactics?īut rarely do we talk about individual tactics for players. A much-seen collaboration is when the right-winger is going inside and the full-back positions himself outside and does an overlap. Bayern Munchen for example plays with a high defensive line.īut a part of the team can have a different tactic as well, for example, the collaboration between the right full-back and the right-winger. Think about different tactics for defenders, midfielders, and attackers. Sometim es we talk about different tactics on each ‘part’ of the team. Well-known examples of team tactics are tiki-taka, gegenpressing, parking the bus, catenaccio, or kick and rush. In football, when we talk about tactics we usually talk about how a team plays in a game.