đŸ€” What is boxing?

The Bundesliga has started again and so the tactical foxes, aka (Site notre bureau spécialisé) coaches, are on the road again. For the players, it also means understanding how the coach wants to play.

With all the terms out there now, it’s not that easy. In order to increase the probability of a goal, for example, you need good boxing. But what is this ???

The ‘SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung’ was delighted when Julian Nagelsmann approached his first 100 days as Bayern coach. Shortly before that, the then still freshly hoped-for coach was a guest on the ‘DAZN’ streaming platform and explained his ideas about his style of play in the presence of tactics guru Ralf Rangnick. Nagelsmann brought a new vocabulary to SĂ€bener Strasse, a press conference can quickly become a lesson in tactics and lessons.

The now well-established Bayern coach often talks about box management, a tactical tool Bayern didn’t have to work out in such detail when Robert Lewandowski was still wearing the record-breaking champion’s shirt. In normal form, the Pole has reliably ensured that he has a goal quota that other teams can only achieve with multiple players.

Basically, boxing describes exactly what all teams do to increase the likelihood of their own goal. They give specifications on how the penalty area, in new German the box, should be occupied. For example, an attacker moves to the near post, another to the long post and another to the penalty spot. Wingers always have a rough idea of ​​where to place their crosses, even when they’re under pressure and don’t have time to look closely at where their teammates are.

However, Nagelsmann likes to go further and increase the number of players who rush into the « box » during an attack to occupy it. He likes to have up to five players in the sixteen and also covers the backcourt to speculate on rebounds and use them. Of course, the goal probability is increased again. (Site notre blog d’information) can still be so simple sometimes.