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German football has arguably never been in such a strong and healthy state. The future for both the German national team and Bundesliga clubs looks exceedingly bright. Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund have dominated in the Champions League this season whilst Schalke 04 have demonstrated great potential

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Bundesliga clubs have clearly benefited from a masterplan by the German Football Association (DFB) in 2000 to radically improve their footballing infrastructure. Fundamental to the current success of German football is that the DFB and Bundesliga clubs work in harmony to their mutual benefit. As a result of the investment in youth development and coach training, Bundesliga clubs have seen the emergence of academy-produced home-grown talent. This, in turn, has helped the German national team which now includes highly talented young players like Özil, Khedira, Müller, Götze, Reus and Kroos.

The second and final article of this series examines the recent success of the top two German teams Bayern Munich and Borussia Dormund and, in particular, their employment of 'gegenpressing' (or counter-pressing) as part of their tactical repertoire. An intriguing question is whether the ultra-organised, ultra-commited, cohesive defensive and attacking approach employed so successfully by Bayern and Dortmund has the potential to become the new force in European football and dominate over the Spanish possession-based tiki-taka style?

BORUSSIA DORTMUND AND KLOPP'S GEGENPRESSING TACTIC

Without doubt, the huge success of Barcelona and the Spanish national side presented European and international football with a significant problem. The challenge has been to develop a tactical approach capable of triumphing over tiki-taka.

Let's consider Borussia Dortmund's solution. Their astute manager Jürgen Klopp studied the Barça style in great detail but, importantly, he didn't set out to imitate tiki-taka. Instead, he developed the gegenpressing style of play.

How Gegenpressing Works

Gegenpressing differs from Barcelona's approach of pressing teams as high up the pitch as possible by incorporating a defensive as well as attacking element, which involves the whole team pressing aggressively in unison. Gegenpressing is a highly-organised approach to regaining possession and minimising space for the opposition. Dortmund's opponents are rapidly closed down by well-rehearsed, co-ordinated pressing movements, often by two or more players, allied with intelligent positioning to restrict space for players to pass and move into. Klopp knows that possession of the ball without creating and taking goal-scoring opportunities means little. He also understands that for possession-based approaches like tiki-taka to be effective, players need space to pass and move in key areas, particularly the final third of the pitch.

The Dortmund manager has described gegenpressing as "the best playmaker in the world. The best moment to win the ball is immediately after your team just lost it. The opponent is still looking for orientation where to pass the ball." Once Dortmund have regained possession, the transition from defence to attack is organised and, potentially, explosive. But, although Klopp is renowned for his commitment to open attacking football, he is no 'one trick pony'. Gegenpressing does not mean playing the same way all the time. Dortmund can play a variety of styles and formations, all underpinned by the gegenpressing approach.

Against Real Madrid in the Champions League group stages this season, Madrid were allowed the majority of ball possession but the Dortmund players closely pressed Madrid players like Xabi Alonso to limit his ability to pass and bring others into the game. Klopp and his players did their homework to learn how to anticipate Madrid's play and successfully eliminated or restricted both the supply to and goal-scoring opportunities for the highly dangerous Cristiano Ronaldo. Klopp used gegenpressing to capitalise on Dortmund’s ability to execute extremely quick transitions, moving the ball up the field as fast as possible.

Ultra-Fast Transitions

peed of play matters very much to Klopp. This season, Dortmund’s attack has taken on a new dimension with the acquisition of young German international Marco Reus. He and the young maestro Mario Götze (who has now signed for Bayern Munich), regarded by many as the new Messi-in-the-making, have brilliantly exploited the space between defence and midfield. Klopp has encouraged the pair to play as close together as possible. Dortmund's transitions have been even quicker than in previous seasons and Götze and Reus have created the vast majority of Dortmund's scoring chances.

Anyone who has watched Dortmund this season can't fail to have been impressed by the chemistry and link-up play of Götze and Reus, referred to collectively as "Götzeus" because of their inventive interplay, involving almost telepathic passing and movement. This has added an additional layer of sophistication and unpredictability to Dortmund's play. Their lightening-quick attacking movements have capitalised on the devastating finishing of players like Polish international forward Lewandowski. A great example of this was the build-up to their opening goal against Malaga in the Champions League quarter-final. The speed of passing and movement that preceded Reus's fantastic mid-air back-heeled flick to put Lewandowski through to score was sublime.

Work Ethic

But let's not forget that Dortmund's technical and individual brilliance is driven by high levels of motivation and commitment. Klopp has inspired his players to work extremely hard as a team, referring to this as "greed...the hunger to eat up that extra kilometer of grass." Klopp knows only too well that any tactical approach, including gegenpressing, won't bring success without sheer hard work. Earlier this season Klopp commented, "I want us to go to the limit every time. There's a saying: a good horse only jumps as high as it needs to. I've put it differently for my team: a really good horse jumps as high as it can. To give everything on the pitch, that's what we train for."

Footbonaut Technology

Pressing opponents relentlessly throughout a game requires players to be as fit as is physically and technically possible. Klopp has trained his players to develop incredible stamina, as evidenced by their Bundesliga and Champions League running distance statistics. Dortmund certainly work tirelessly with and without the ball.

However, in addition to fitness, Klopp astutely saw how cutting edge technology could improve players' technique and help them to develop razor-sharp reactions. In a previous article "Jürgen Klopp's Dortmund: Masters of Technology and Technique", I described how Klopp introduced a highly sophisticated computerised ball feeding machine called Footbonaut to Dortmund's training regime. This technology has improved players' reaction time, ball control, spatial awareness and peripheral vision.

According to Klopp, Dortmund are the only team in the world to use Footbonaut. The technology fits perfectly with Klopp's philosophy of playing football at devastating speed and with razor-sharp precision. Klopp is part of a new breed of coaches who see the great benefit of programming players' brains to react more quickly, almost instinctively, on the pitch.

BAYERN MUNICH FIND THE FINAL PIECE OF THE JIGSAW

Let's now consider the reasons for the upturn in the fortunes of Bayern Munich this season. Many believe that this has been due to learning from Jürgen Klopp's successful Dortmund team.

For example, after seeing their rivals Borussia Dortmund win consecutive Bundesliga titles, Bayern worked hard in pre-season to avoid a repeat of previous seasons where they played, at times, beautiful football but won nothing. Munich added gegenpressing to their tactical repertoire. It has given Jupp Heynckes' side a valuable additional dimension. Bayern can now play a variety of styles that includes a possession-based, almost tiki-taka style, introduced by Heynckes' predecessor Louis van Gaal.

However, Klopp is not impressed by how Bayern went about improving their chances of success, comparing their approach to Chinese businessmen saying, "They look at what the others are doing, and then they copy it with other people and more money. And then they overtake you.”

Bayern certainly spent big on some players like €40m Javi Martinez, a defensive midfielder signed from Atlético Madrid, who has helped them become a more solid unit. Bayern have also added some steel to their defending. They have conceded just 15 goals in the Bundesliga this season. To emphasise this point, the next best defensive team, FC Freiburg, have conceded 38 times. Their defensive play has often looked imperious against top sides in Champions League encounters. According to Manuel Neuer, the Bayern goalkeeper, the key to Bayern's success is that "the whole team defends well, covers spaces well, when we lose the ball we go and win it back."

Manager Jupp Heynckes has highlighted his team's improved cohesive and team effort saying, "We have improved this season, we are better defensively and at switching play. The thing that pleases me is that every player has to realise that they have to defend and attack." Arjen Robben who has previously played in the Premier League for Chelsea and in La Liga for Real Madrid echoed Heynckes' comments. When asked why Bayern dominated in the Champions League this season he said, "We play as a team, not just going forward but, more importantly, defensively. We are very well organised and everyone knows their job. Don’t give them space and, first and foremost, be organised.”

Matthias Sammer, appointed as Bayern's sporting director at the start of the season, says succinctly "The good results are the upshot of hard work." And there is little doubt that the fluidly and cohesiveness of Bayern's play this season has been underpinned by a tremendous work ethic, especially in limiting space for their opponents. They have refined their pressing game to the point where they have managed to nullify the influence of great playmakers like Sergio Busquets of Barcelona and Andrea Pirlo of Juventus in the Champions League. Javi Martinez's defensive midfield partnership with Bastian Schweinsteiger has contributed significantly to Bayern's improved pressing game.

Bayern's great speed and flair in transitions from defence to attack have capitalised on the pace and finishing of Robben, Ribery, Müller and Mandzukić to punish opponents. In the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona, Bayern executed the gegenpressing tactic brilliantly to take full advantage of the space Barcelona leave when they push high upfield. Heynckes astutely observed how vulnerable Barcelona could be after losing possession to a team that can attack cohesively in numbers and at great pace.

Other Factors in Bayern's Success

Bayern's successful season owes much to the gegenpressing tactic but, in truth, it is one of many tactical approaches that Bayern can utilise in games. Let's consider a number of other key contributory factors in Bayern's success this season.

Über Team Spirit

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has been Bayern's Executive Board Chairman since 1991 and has been involved with the club for over 30 years. Rummenigge has spoken about the extraordinary team spirit that sets the current squad apart from previous Bayern teams, many of whom achieved great domestic and European success. Rummenigge believes this is due to the willingness of each player to work towards the shared mission of the team rather than focus on individual desires.

This season Bayern have been stronger because of Heynckes' concerted efforts to make his players more competitive and develop a hunger for success. He instilled into his players the importance of never being satisfied or doing just enough to win. His plan was for every member of his squad to think and feel they were part of a team and to contribute as much as possible to the team effort.

Strength in Depth

Club chairman Rummenigge believes Bayern's squad quality and strength in depth has played a key role in their success this year, saying, "I learned this year that a team is made up of 24 rather than just 11 players." A lack of squad strength in depth is surely something that Barcelona must now be regretting after their demolition by the bouyant Bayern side.

The Matthias Sammer Effect

Both Bayern and Dortmund have emerged as major forces in European football in no small measure because of their ability to fuse the renowned German physical strength and stamina with technical skills that, in the past, were associated only with South American and, more recently, Spanish players.

Bayern's improvement this season has coincided with the astute appointment last summer of former German Football Association (DFB) technical director Matthias Sammer as sporting director. Sammer played an important part in devising the DFB's masterplan to transform Germany's youth development system. Sammer has helped Bayern to maximise players' physical and technical development. Similar to Jürgen Klopp at Dortmund, he has taken full advantage of advances in technology, sports science and sports psychology.

And Finally......

Barcelona's success in recent years provided a significant challenge to European clubs to develop players and formations capable of competing against the tiki-taka style. This season in the Champions League, Bayern and Dortmund have demonstrated that winning is about more than possession of the ball. We are witnessing the growing effectiveness of the gegenpressing approach, particularly in German football, involving ultra-fit, technically sophisticated players working extremely hard as cohesive defensive and attacking units.

Many people are predicting that Bayern and Dortmund can emulate the recent achievements of Barcelona and go on to dominate European football in coming years. For now, in gegenpressing, it appears the Germans may have finally discovered an antidote to tiki-taka.

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Last season, Juergen Klopp emerged as one of European football's best coaches. Despite having led Dortmund to improbable back-to-back Bundesliga titles, he was largely under the radar until his BVB side took on heavyweights like Real Madrid and Manchester City in the Champions League.

And after getting the better of Jose Mourinho's Real and finishing top in the group stage, Klopp again outfoxed the Portuguese tactician in the semifinals as he affirmed his place among Europe's best coaches.

Although Dortmund lost in the Champions League final, Klopp can even take some credit for Bayern Munich's win. After seeing Bayern lose all three of their head-to-head matches with BVB in 2011-12, including a 5-2 drubbing in the DFB-Pokal final, Jupp Heynckes adapted his tactical style to incorporate Klopp's famous high-intensity gegenpressing.

The result? An unprecedented treble.

Klopp's tactics may have changed over the years, but his character and attitude toward coaching have remained consistent since his early years at Mainz. Above all else, Klopp emphasizes the importance of passion, emotion and attitude.

When his Mainz were promoted to the first division, he took the team for a five-day preseason camping trip at a lake in Sweden. The players were allowed to bring no food and did not even run for fitness training, let alone play with a football. But the experience built toughness and camaraderie.

"We went to the Bundesliga and people could not believe how strong we were," said Klopp, per Donald McRae of The Guardian.

Klopp is a mentor to his players, the kind of "cool dad" character who is half friend, half father figure. His passion inspires players to give everything for the club and to never, ever give up hope. He emphasizes that every game is important and that every goal is special: Rather than showing his team video footage of Barcelona's tiki-taka style of play, he instead uses still photos to illustrate how the Catalan giants celebrate every goal as though it were their first. That, to him, is a much more important lesson than subjecting his side to a brand of football they would not use.

On the pitch, Klopp has always used a daring, high-energy game plan. The value of his cavalier system was perhaps evident from his very first season at Dortmund, when he led a relegation-battling side to a sixth-placed finish in the Bundesliga. But it was only two seasons later, after Klopp had built a team capable of winning the Bundesliga, that gegenpressing gained widespread acclaim.

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Fundamentally, gegenpressing is a rather simple tactical approach: A team simply plays at full pace for 90 minutes, approaching every moment as though they are down a goal late in a major final. After losing possession, players will swarm their opponents, giving them no time on the ball regardless of position and location.

According to Klopp, gegenpressing is the best playmaker there is. And he has good reason: Pressing has led to many goals for BVB, a perfect example of which being Robert Lewandowski's opener against Real Madrid at the Signal-Iduna Park last October.

Without the ball, there is not much that distinguishes Klopp's gegenpressing from the system Pep Guardiola used at Barcelona, especially in his first season. But what distinguishes Klopp is how his team plays once they've won back the ball. BVB's system is to always look for the opportunity to counterattack, playing the ball forward immediately and sprinting into open space as opponents shift from attack to defense.

In its most pure manifestation, which was best executed in 2010-11, gegenpressing utterly overwhelmed Bundesliga opponents. But it took some adjustment for BVB to become the power in the Champions League that they were in 2012-13.

In the 2010-11 Europa League and the 2011-12 Champions League, Dortmund were eliminated in the group stage. They were found naive and inexperienced, but a certain degree of their shortcomings could be attributed to their playing at an unsustainable and absolutely breakneck pace.

As criticized as Barcelona have been for lacking a "Plan B," their tiki-taka style is more versatile than the original manifestation of gegenpressing: It serves the purpose of creating attacking play, and when Barca are ahead, it can be used as a defensive measure to keep the ball away from opponents. Klopp's system was purely one-dimensional, and the risk of all-out attack was that BVB wore little time off the clock when in possession. On an off day for their finishing, Dortmund were vulnerable.

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Last season, Juergen Klopp emerged as one of European football's best coaches. Despite having led Dortmund to improbable back-to-back Bundesliga titles, he was largely under the radar until his BVB side took on heavyweights like Real Madrid and Manchester City in the Champions League.

And after getting the better of Jose Mourinho's Real and finishing top in the group stage, Klopp again outfoxed the Portuguese tactician in the semifinals as he affirmed his place among Europe's best coaches.

Although Dortmund lost in the Champions League final, Klopp can even take some credit for Bayern Munich's win. After seeing Bayern lose all three of their head-to-head matches with BVB in 2011-12, including a 5-2 drubbing in the DFB-Pokal final, Jupp Heynckes adapted his tactical style to incorporate Klopp's famous high-intensity gegenpressing.

The result? An unprecedented treble.

Klopp's tactics may have changed over the years, but his character and attitude toward coaching have remained consistent since his early years at Mainz. Above all else, Klopp emphasizes the importance of passion, emotion and attitude.

When his Mainz were promoted to the first division, he took the team for a five-day preseason camping trip at a lake in Sweden. The players were allowed to bring no food and did not even run for fitness training, let alone play with a football. But the experience built toughness and camaraderie.

"We went to the Bundesliga and people could not believe how strong we were," said Klopp, per Donald McRae of The Guardian.

Klopp is a mentor to his players, the kind of "cool dad" character who is half friend, half father figure. His passion inspires players to give everything for the club and to never, ever give up hope. He emphasizes that every game is important and that every goal is special: Rather than showing his team video footage of Barcelona's tiki-taka style of play, he instead uses still photos to illustrate how the Catalan giants celebrate every goal as though it were their first. That, to him, is a much more important lesson than subjecting his side to a brand of football they would not use.


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Dortmund's method of swarming opponents makes ball-retention difficult even for the most skillful of midfielders.
On the pitch, Klopp has always used a daring, high-energy game plan. The value of his cavalier system was perhaps evident from his very first season at Dortmund, when he led a relegation-battling side to a sixth-placed finish in the Bundesliga. But it was only two seasons later, after Klopp had built a team capable of winning the Bundesliga, that gegenpressing gained widespread acclaim.

Fundamentally, gegenpressing is a rather simple tactical approach: A team simply plays at full pace for 90 minutes, approaching every moment as though they are down a goal late in a major final. After losing possession, players will swarm their opponents, giving them no time on the ball regardless of position and location.

According to Klopp, gegenpressing is the best playmaker there is. And he has good reason: Pressing has led to many goals for BVB, a perfect example of which being Robert Lewandowski's opener against Real Madrid at the Signal-Iduna Park last October.


Without the ball, there is not much that distinguishes Klopp's gegenpressing from the system Pep Guardiola used at Barcelona, especially in his first season. But what distinguishes Klopp is how his team plays once they've won back the ball. BVB's system is to always look for the opportunity to counterattack, playing the ball forward immediately and sprinting into open space as opponents shift from attack to defense.

In its most pure manifestation, which was best executed in 2010-11, gegenpressing utterly overwhelmed Bundesliga opponents. But it took some adjustment for BVB to become the power in the Champions League that they were in 2012-13.

In the 2010-11 Europa League and the 2011-12 Champions League, Dortmund were eliminated in the group stage. They were found naive and inexperienced, but a certain degree of their shortcomings could be attributed to their playing at an unsustainable and absolutely breakneck pace.

As criticized as Barcelona have been for lacking a "Plan B," their tiki-taka style is more versatile than the original manifestation of gegenpressing: It serves the purpose of creating attacking play, and when Barca are ahead, it can be used as a defensive measure to keep the ball away from opponents. Klopp's system was purely one-dimensional, and the risk of all-out attack was that BVB wore little time off the clock when in possession. On an off day for their finishing, Dortmund were vulnerable.

Even when BVB did manage to finish, they were sometimes found lacking. After going 2-0 ahead of Marseille at home in their 2011-12 Champions League group stage finale, they managed to lose 3-2. In that match, Dortmund's outfielders covered an incredible 122.9 kilometers. For perspective, that's 12.3 kilometers per player (including even the center-backs), or 43 percent more than the 8.6 kilometers Lionel Messi covered in Barcelona's Champions League opener against Ajax last week, recorded by UEFA.


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Dortmund were unable to cope with the added burden of Champions League games while playing at such a high intensity, and their pace didn't even help. They entered the midseason break behind Bayern in the league table and already knocked out of the Champions League. Something needed to change.

Klopp has since adapted his team's style to include more finesse. Dortmund now cover less ground and, in domestic play, try to take a commanding lead early before taking a foot off the pedal and using more of a containment method. For example, when BVB beat Hamburg 6-2 earlier in September, their outfielders collectively covered a modest and manageable 112.0 kilometers, according to the official Bundesliga website. With the game decided long before full time, there was no need to go all out, and Dortmund's stars conserved their energy.

Even with their new-found willingness to tone down their attack, Klopp's game plan is somewhat one-dimensional.

Dortmund struggle to defend in a classical sense, deep in their own half. And for all their abundant ball-playing class in midfield, they aren't the best at simply maintaining possession and passing the ball around the middle third or playing a containment style of football—it is perhaps this above all which tactically made the difference between Bayern's treble-winning 2012-13 and BVB finishing without a trophy last season.

Klopp's system at Dortmund is not perfect; even with recent adjustments, it remains rather one-dimensional. But at 46, he is a very young coach who has done incredibly well in his limited years. He is the creator of a new tactical movement that has been emulated by some of Europe's strongest clubs, and those tactics have transformed BVB from a relegation-battling side to one of the world's elite clubs.
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Adolf used that same strategy in '45 and was blasted out of the stratosphere. A few fluky runs in Europe and all of a sudden the world's gone untahauffen...Faaaaaaaaaaack off, the best thing to come out of the Unter-forgivens, is beer and big breasts...f*ck the rest.

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Coach wrote:Adolf used that same strategy in '45 and was blasted out of the stratosphere. A few fluky runs in Europe and all of a sudden the world's gone untahauffen...Faaaaaaaaaaack off, the best thing to come out of the Unter-forgivens, is beer and big breasts...f*ck the rest.

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Coach wrote:Adolf used that same strategy in '45 and was blasted out of the stratosphere. A few fluky runs in Europe and all of a sudden the world's gone untahauffen...Faaaaaaaaaaack off, the best thing to come out of the Unter-forgivens, is beer and big breasts...f*ck the rest.

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Coachiiitooooooo… people suck balls just because a one time wonder play by a club to fight for their lives against a team like barca that they know can disgrace them in any given moment the whistle is blown on a 90 minute game. . I hear you clearly. Such write ups should surface if they dortmund can duplicate the total dominance of barca for almost a decade abi? I lie?

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