Curated Action

Patient Jockeying and Delaying for Defensive Support

General Training

Patient Jockeying and Delaying for Defensive Support is a reusable training action. Review its coaching notes and targets below.

Reusable training actionVideo demonstration1 min 12 sec

Training Details

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Sourceyoutube.com/watch?v=HAW4_nqFCjY
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Patient Jockeying and Delaying for Defensive Support

Maintain a disciplined distance while retreating backward, resisting the urge to lunge into feints or stepovers, buying vital seconds for recovering central midfielders and center-backs to create a 2v1 or 3v1 overload. Patience must be maintained until the attacker commits to a heavy or definitive directional push.

Key points

  • Stay light on the balls of your feet and continuously backpedal without biting on feints
  • Refrain from lunging or making the first aggressive movement while the attacker still has close control
  • Use delay tactics to allow recovering teammates to double-team and press from behind

Common mistakes

Lunging in on the attacker's initial hesitation move, giving them the trigger to explode past you down the line.

Sets: 1Duration: 10 secRest: 0 secEst. duration: 1 min 12 sec
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