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What Made PSG’s Pressing Approach so Effective This Season?

I used a game against Marseille to show how PSG mix several different concepts to dominate off the ball:

How to press in situations of inferiority(5v7)
How to prevent the opponent from circulating the ball across the backline
How to prevent the opposition’s ‘outlet’ or free-man from impacting the game
How to set-up a high-risk/high-reward rest-defence structure

The concepts they use are fairly basic but their use and execution of a variety of concepts and principles, is what makes them stand out.
As a result they recover the ball frequently in the opposition’s half in different situations. Even against strong possession-based sides such as De Zerbi’s Marseille.