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Beat the Press with Single & Double Pivots
Build Up Play and Sessions from Flick, Klopp and Emery’s Tactics
Discover how top coaches beat the press using single and double pivots (4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1). This book breaks down their 80+ tactics in detail and gives you 53 practices, 9 ready-to-use training sessions to coach these build-up strategies with your team

Transform your coaching by implementing the exact same patterns as Hansi Flick (FC Barcelona), Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool), and Unai Emery (Aston Villa) into your sessions.
UEFA A Licence coach and award-winning author Athanasios Terzis delivers detailed tactical analysis, structured solutions, and easy to follow progressive sessions — making it easy for you to apply modern build-up principles into your training sessions and see the difference on the pitch!
How the Book will Elevate your Coaching:
- Create positional and numerical advantages to progress the ball under high pressure
- Maintain passing options with intelligent movement and clear positional roles
- Develop confident ball-players and help them make better decisions under pressure
- Exploit all defensive systems from tight man marking to fluid zonal and hybrid setups
- Break pressing lines with confidence even under high pressing and ultra aggressive pressing
- Beat the high press with intelligent positioning and fast, purposeful ball movement
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 using both single and double pivots
- Detailed breakdowns of opposition pressing systems and how to beat them
- Position-specific insights to help your players support, scan, and execute under pressure
- 53 game-realistic practices (9 progressive training sessions) and detailed instructions
Learn, practice, and apply the build-up patterns used by Flick, Klopp, and Emery to help your team beat the press!

Key Stats
Beat the Press with a Single & Double Pivots:
- Break Lines with a Single Pivot
- Break Lines with a Double Pivot
- Goalkeeper’s Passing Over Pressing Lines
- Build Up to Beat the High Press
- Build Up to Beat Ultra-Aggressive Pressing
- Beat the Press 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 Flick’s FC Barcelona, Klopp’s Liverpool, and Emery’s Aston Villa.
Practice Examples:
- Combination: Goalkeeper’s Passing Over Pressing Lines and Decisions to Play in Behind
- Functional: Functional Build Up Patterns vs Ultra-Aggressive Pressing to Play Through or Over
- Positional Game: Draw the Press and Break Lines Against a High Press 8v6 (+GKs) Positional Game
- Small Sided Game: Exploit 3v2 Numerical Advantage with Double Pivot Midfield Positional Small Sided Game
- Large Game: Reading Tactical Triggers to Beat the Press Against Full Pitch Man Marking Game


182 Pages
