![]() ![]() They will contribute a lot to the teams attacks.ĭC - Both the central defenders should be set as Ball Playing defenders and will initiate passing from the back when needed.ĭMC - Deep Lying Playmaker / Defend duty Both Fabinho and Henderson are very good at this role. Goalkeeper / Defend Duty (Fewer Risky Passes, Distribute to Centre Backs - if you want more possession, slow down the pace and better build-up from the back).ĭL / DR - Fullbacks with attack duty, both TAA & Robertson are very good attacking full backs and have excellent crossing. ![]() GK - Sweeper Keeper / Support duty (If your goalkeeper can initiate counter-attacks). It’s even possible to play this 4-3-3 slightly asymmetric, by pushing one of your Central Midfielders forward to Attacking Midfield position.ĪLSO READ: FM20 - Pep Guardiola's 4-3-3 Man City Tiki-Taka Tactic Jordan Henderson Or Fabinho are perfect for this role as a deep lying playmaker with defensive duty. He won’t contribute all that much to goals and assists tally but will bring the ball out from the defence and secure your backline when playing with four men defence. I can’t stress enough how important is to have a Defensive Midfielder here. So try to look at gegenpressing as a style of play, rather than the formation, and you can apply instructions from this article to your team, even if you’re not playing in this formation. Since we will be replicating Klopp’s tactic we will be playing the 4-3-3 formation which also incidentally suits best for the Liverpool’s squad players. The big Dutch teams – Ernst Happel’s Feyenoord, Rinus Michels’ Ajax Amsterdam and the Dutch National team with Johan Cryuff as captain – already used it other teams before them also intuitively pressed immediately when losing the ball.Ĭoncluding, gegenpressing is characterised by high-intensity running and pressing, a high-line across the pitch and counter-attacking football on the break.īut, this is Jurgen Klopp’s replica of the Liverpool tactics this season, so let’s see how it functions.įirst, let me start by saying that it is possible to play gegenpress with almost every formation in Football Manager 2020. ![]() It’s a vicious challenge for your opponent to defend in their half for 90 minutes.Īlso, to make it clear it was not Jurgen Klopp who invented this style of football. Attack, shoot, press the opposition, win the ball back, attack, shoot, press the opposition, win the ball again. To simply put it, to play gegenpress football, your team after losing possession of the ball immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup. In this post, I’ll show you how I managed to play Gegenpress football in Football Manager 2020 just like how Liverpool are doing in real life.įirst we'll take a look of what style of football are we going to be working here. Here’s how to emulate Jurgen Klopp’s 4-3-3 Liverpool Gegenpress Tactic in FM20. ![]()
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