What is Gegenpressing in football?

FOOTBALL

A tactic in which a team, after losing possession of the ball, immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup.

Usually when a team loses possession in the opponent's half, the strategy is to fall back and regroup to maintain shape and reduce gaps. But under gegenpressing (which loosely translates to pressing against), the team moves further up the pitch to press and regain possession.

two necessary traits are-

1. Stamina to play the entire 90 minutes at full pace. Fitness above all.
2. Technically sound because the whole play depends on the players' ability to tackle and regain the possession
   Characteristics :-

-High Pressing
-Defending on High Lines
-Blistering Counter Attacks
-High Work Rate
-Strategy not down to a single player or a single department performed by -all Midfielders & Attackers
-Perfect Defensive Shape
-Pushing the Ball Wide while possession to the opponent

Guardiola had a rule for his players, that if they did not win the ball back with incessant pressing within 6 seconds of losing it, they would immediately get back into defensive shape and channel all their energies into cutting off any free spaces that the opposition had to pass the ball, thus almost always leading to a Barcelona player intercepting the ball.
There is no 6-second rule in Klopp’s version.Klopp’s version is a little more “heavy metal” as he himself describesThere is no 6-second rule in Klopp’s version.Klopp’s version is a little more “heavy metal” as he himself describes it it.

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