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POSSESSION Pep Guardiola philosophy TURNING POSSESSION INTO POINTS ( Control The World )

Following last year's success, I'm continuing the "Control The World" tactical series with a possession based tactic inspired by Guardiola's philosophy. Pep is my favorite tactician, he is the master, the philosopher! CTW tactic recreated for Football Manager 2018.


TURNING POSSESSION INTO POINTS High Presing


(dream team system of pep guardiola ) Cruyff and Guardiola inspired tactic

Possession is not a romantic idea. Aim of possession is to concede less and create more scoring opportunities.

every thing start with the ball ! finish with the ball its 11 v 11 with the ball


"A lot of trainers say, 'Pass the ball and run', but what I say is the complete opposite," he tells FFT.
"I say, 'Pass the ball and stay', 'Pass the ball and find the right pass', 'Pass the ball and be ready'.
"Don't expend too much energy running because if you have to run a lot you are more tired and if you are more tired you're more likely to lose the ball."
Don't beat yourself up, we've all been getting it wrong. To make sure you get it right, hit play and drink in Capellas' knowledge




FC Barcelona can be titled as the most successful club in the 21th century, at least so far. Between 2004 and 2013, FC Barcelona won the Spanish La Liga on 6 occasions, UEFA Champions League trophy three times (2006, 2009, 2011) and ranking up a total of 21 consecutive trophies in the last decade. Most impressive were former La Masia educate Josep Guardiola four year period as manager ranking up 14 titles of the mentioned 21(!) recording an impressive 72.47 win ratio through 247 competitive matches.

One of the reasons behind their success is their playing style and tactics – the tiki taka – a style which is as complicated as its simple.

(TIKI TAKA – What is it? )
quick short passes, flicks and one-twos who could make any opposition team dazzle from the speed of the player movements and the ball circulation. At its best tiki taka was something like an advanced pig in the middle were the amount of short burst movements created the most intricate paths increasing the amount of passing options for the man with the ball. By working the ball through various channels, Barcelona wanted to play beautiful and entertaining attacking football, where the aim was to put their opponents under extensive pressure which finally made them buckle.

I have tailored these tactics after Josep Guardiolas philosophy at Barcelona and their players, for example the
system used in the highly successful 2009-2010 season but also focused on the general characteristics of Pep Guardiolas ideThe Barcelona Tiki Taka tactics is created for everyone who prefers high amount of possession (above 60%), who feels more comfortable when the ball is in the opposite half rather than counter from deep within your own half,
“For Guardiola the ideal striker doesn’t work permanently in the box, instead he arrives there at the culmination of a collectively-constructed attack”.
By leaving the penalty box free from players and instead have players arriving there it’s important that the wide forwards (inside forwards) tends to get into opposition area. These movements has the sole purpose to cause panic and chaos in the defensive organization of the opposite team. Achieving to drag players out of position or not may be the difference between a shot on goal (a goal scored) or a blocked shot (failed attack).
In Possession
With the ball I like my players to patiently build up the play with shorter passes at players feet working the ball around until space opens up. With short passing ticked coupled with retain possession the players will look to move the ball patiently between each other reducing the tempo of the match and the overall passing length. It’s all focused on not taking any necessary risk in your own half.




(Thanks also to Josep Guardiola) who makes the game more beautiful every day pushing the borders of what we today think is impossible and devoting his time to make football even more interesting to watch. If football was science, you are the Albert Einstein of football – coming up with concepts and innovating the game to a level we won’t fully comprehend until years have gone by and you have conquered everything possible in football.




( in traning )
One model to use is 2 weeks tactical, 1 week ball control and 1 week attacking per month. But this comes down to analysis of your squad, periodic performance analysis of areas your team might struggle with, either its low goal scoring ratio, poor passing or lack of team movement and tactical understanding.