Reading a press: three triggers worth more than the data

The data will tell you a team pressed well. It won’t tell you why. Three genuine triggers separate an organised press from a team just chasing the game.

A high PPDA number looks like intensity. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is eleven players running hard in unrelated directions, and the only reason it worked is that the opposition centre-half had a poor afternoon.

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