Why is everyone talking about rest defence? (w. Stephen Russell)

Tifo Football Podcast

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Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Jon Mackenzie is joined by Stephen Russell to discuss the most important aspects of rest defence. What is rest defence? Why is it important? Why do coaches worry about it? What tactical shifts have prompted this? What are the two key variables of rest defence? This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Hello and welcome to the Tefo Football Podcast, I'm John Mackenzie and happy new year to my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman Mike, how are you doing? Happy New Year, John,
1:07.0	2023 was great, and here's to an even better 2024.
1:10.0	Yeah, and we're jumping straight in with the good stuff in 2024. This is a podcast that is all about
1:16.3	Rest Defence. It's a concept tactically that people have been talking about a lot in the last few seasons.
1:21.1	What we've done is we've brought in one of the world
1:23.2	experts on rest defense. Stephen Russell is an academic who's just written a
1:27.4	master's thesis on the concept, so we're here to talk all things rest defense,
1:32.0	what it is, what it it means what coaches can learn from
1:34.4	it why it's important you've just listened to that conversation what did you make of
1:38.0	it for me it's kind of the two key variables that Stephen talked about compactness
1:42.3	and proximity the pros and cons of each, and basically what exactly each are used for.
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