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Beat the Press With a Box Midfield - Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Arteta's Tactics

The SoccerTutor book Beat the Press With a Box Midfield - Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Artetas Tactics features Arsenal imagery, soccer field graphics, and expert analysis on modern football strategies.
The cover of SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield – Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Artetas Tactics by Terzis Athanasios features pitch graphics and a man in a red jacket.
SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield covers build-up play and sessions inspired by Guardiola, Alonso and Arteta. Features a football coach in red—ideal for fans of modern tactical strategy. Book and tablet cover included.
Cover of SoccerTutors Beat the Press With a Box Midfield, featuring photos of three coaches and referencing build-up play and sessions from Guardiola, Alonso, and Artetas tactics.
Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor features a soccer strategy diagram with field graphics, movement arrows, and labels, explaining how to build up play from the goalkeeper using tactics from Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta.
SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield diagram uses quality materials to display players, arrows, and a ball, showing how to move play to attacking midfielders behind the press; text explains Guardiola, Alonso, and Artetas tactics.
The Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor shows how to build up play and exploit gaps against high pressing teams, using diagrams and sessions based on Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta’s tactics.
SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield uses clear diagrams to show how midfielders create space for a left attacking midfielder behind the press, ideal for visual learners studying build-up play from Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta.
SoccerTutors Beat the Press With a Box Midfield cover page features Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta, showcasing four build-up sessions inspired by their tactics against high press zonal defending.
SoccerTutors Beat the Press With a Box Midfield diagram shows players, cones, and arrows for training midfield passing and breaking the press with build-up play inspired by Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta’s tactics.
Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor: Learn build-up play and sessions inspired by Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta’s tactics. Diagrams highlight formations, GK choices, high pressing defenses, and passing options.
Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor: Features a 3-at-back soccer tactics diagram, blue midfielders passing around red defenders with arrows for options, detailed coaching points, and practice sessions inspired by Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta.
The SoccerTutor book Beat the Press With a Box Midfield - Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Artetas Tactics features Arsenal imagery, soccer field graphics, and expert analysis on modern football strategies.
The cover of SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield – Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Artetas Tactics by Terzis Athanasios features pitch graphics and a man in a red jacket.
SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield covers build-up play and sessions inspired by Guardiola, Alonso and Arteta. Features a football coach in red—ideal for fans of modern tactical strategy. Book and tablet cover included.
Cover of SoccerTutors Beat the Press With a Box Midfield, featuring photos of three coaches and referencing build-up play and sessions from Guardiola, Alonso, and Artetas tactics.
Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor features a soccer strategy diagram with field graphics, movement arrows, and labels, explaining how to build up play from the goalkeeper using tactics from Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta.
SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield diagram uses quality materials to display players, arrows, and a ball, showing how to move play to attacking midfielders behind the press; text explains Guardiola, Alonso, and Artetas tactics.
The Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor shows how to build up play and exploit gaps against high pressing teams, using diagrams and sessions based on Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta’s tactics.
SoccerTutor’s Beat the Press With a Box Midfield uses clear diagrams to show how midfielders create space for a left attacking midfielder behind the press, ideal for visual learners studying build-up play from Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta.
SoccerTutors Beat the Press With a Box Midfield cover page features Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta, showcasing four build-up sessions inspired by their tactics against high press zonal defending.
SoccerTutors Beat the Press With a Box Midfield diagram shows players, cones, and arrows for training midfield passing and breaking the press with build-up play inspired by Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta’s tactics.
Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor: Learn build-up play and sessions inspired by Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta’s tactics. Diagrams highlight formations, GK choices, high pressing defenses, and passing options.
Beat the Press With a Box Midfield by SoccerTutor: Features a 3-at-back soccer tactics diagram, blue midfielders passing around red defenders with arrows for options, detailed coaching points, and practice sessions inspired by Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta.
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The SoccerTutor book Beat the Press With a Box Midfield - Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Artetas Tactics features Arsenal imagery, soccer field graphics, and expert analysis on modern football strategies.

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Beat the Press with a Box Midfield

Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Arteta’s Tactics

This book analyses how Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta build play under pressure — and provides tactical detail and ready-to-use training sessions to help you coach those methods with your own team

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Whether your team struggles to build under pressure, or you want to give your players more structure and clarity when playing out from the back, this book provides a practical tactical framework to beat the press and build confidently from deep areas.

UEFA 'A' Licence Coach and award-winning author Athanasios Terzis delivers a detailed tactical analysis, with structured solutions and 47 practices across 7 ready-to-use session plans — making it easy to apply modern build-up principles in your sessions right away and see the difference on the pitch.

What You’ll Gain as a Coach:

  • Play through high presses using structured box midfield rotations
  • Create overloads in key areas to break pressure and progress play
  • Exploit space with coordinated movements and passing combinations
  • Build from the goalkeeper into the final third with control and intent

Whether you coach youth or elite players, this book gives you a proven, match-relevant framework to play out under pressure, beat any press, and dominate possession with confidence.

What’s inside?

  • Tactical solutions for building up play against different pressing and defending styles
  • Proven models for both 3-at-the-back and 2-at-the-back box midfield build-up systems
  • 47 detailed training practices with progressions to simulate match-day pressure
  • Step-by-step coaching points and progressions to build team intelligence in possession
  • Position-specific detail to improve player decision making and timing

Learn, practice, and apply the build-up patterns used by Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta to help your team beat the press!

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SoccerTutor.com - attack and create chances in the final third 172 Pages
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SoccerTutor.com - attack and create chances in the final third 47 Practices
SoccerTutor.com - attack and create chances in the final third 80+ Tactical Situations
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Beat the Press with a Box Midfield Tactical Solutions included:

  • Positional Rotations to Play Out from the Goalkeeper
  • Breaking Lines Against High Press Zonal Defending
  • Goalkeeper’s Passing Over Pressing Lines
  • Build Up Against a High Press with Zonal Defending
  • Build Up Against a High Press with Man Marking
  • Build Up Against Ultra-Aggressive High Pressing
  • Build Up Against Full Pitch Man Marking

This book will help you develop your team's composure under pressure, help players recognise pressing triggers early and make better positional decisions - using proven tactical solutions and patterns from Manchester City, Bayer Leverkusen, and Arsenal.

Practice Examples:

  • Combination: Passing Decisions to Break Lines Depending on Opposition Pressing
  • Functional: Goalkeeper’s Passing Over Pressing Lines and Decisions to Play in Behind
  • Beating a Full Pitch Man Marking Press with a Long Pass and Support Runs Functional Combinations
  • Possession Game: Exploiting Numerical Advantage to Find the Free Player Continuous Possession Game
  • Small Sided Game: Exploiting 4v3 Numerical Advantage 3-Team Small Sided Game
  • Large Game: Box Midfield Build Up with Equal Numbers and Switch Play in a Dynamic 3-Team Game

Pep Guardiola Full Book Contents

Meet the Author:

Athanasios Terzis

UEFA 'A' Coach and Football Tactics Expert

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  • Author - 20+ top selling football coaching books in multiple languages.
  • Award - Italian FA (FIGC) "Best Coaching Book" Award 2014.
  • Coach Instructer - Greek Football Federation (HFF) instructor and instructor for many coaching seminars and workshops around the world.
  • PAOK U23 - Former Assistant Coach
  • Analyst - Pundit for Cosmote TV
  • Experience - Former coach of professional teams in Greece, Technical Director of DOXA Dramas Academy, and former professional player.

Beat the Press With a Box Midfield - Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Arteta's Tactics

Coach your team to build from the back and beat the press using the exact same tactical solutions as Pep Guardiola, Xabi Alonso, and Mikel Arteta.

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