By happenstance I ran across this excellent tactical discussion of deep penetrating passes and wanted to share it. While I expect this is nothing new to many of you, I rarely find good tactical articles on line. Enjoy. http://spielverlagerung.com/2016/05/12/tactical-theory-vertical-build-up-passing/ This article concerns tactics in the 11v11 senior game, but the article's discussion would apply to any system with three lines. What I was googling for was articles about rotational systems. Not subbing, but how coaches manage player interchange of positions within their system of play. An example would be a 3-player circular rotation (such as right striker-right center midfielder-right midfielder in a 442 system). Anybody seen any good articles?
spielverlagerung posts very thoughtful articles. I like his stuff. I was up at 3 am last night reading his post on Positional Play (again). I've only read some of the link you posted, because it's really long, but the only thing I can echo is that after that long vertical pass, the receiver has to be supported. long-short-short-long.