This fantastic FULL COLOUR book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 3-5-2 formation at all levels.

The level of detail and tactical solutions included will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Antonio Conte (Inter) and Nuno Espírito Santo (Wolverhampton), use the 3-5-2 to great success.

Coach's at all levels can use these practices with their team and adjust them according to the conditions they have (time, space, characteristics of the players etc.)


This book will enable you to:

• Optimise your team's tactical awareness and performance
• Counteract the opponent's positioning, organisation and decision making
• Coordinate and solve specific game situations in a flexible way
• Train these patterns of play repetitively, so that the players' reading of the game becomes automatic
  

This book includes:

• Tactical Strengths and Weaknesses of the 3-5-2 Formation
• 3-5-2 Tactics Against Different Formations (4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, 4-3-1-2, 3-5-2 and 3-4-3)
• Overcoming the First Line of Pressing (Build-up Play from the Back)
• Moving the Ball in Between the Opposition's Midfield and Defensive Lines
• Playing in Behind the Opposition's Defensive Line
• Defensive Organisation and Pressing
• Organisation of the Defensive Line
• 41 Practices and Variations to Apply Tactical Solutions with the 3-5-2

1. Tactical Strengths and Weaknesses of the 3-5-2 Formation
The first chapter provides an analysis of the 3-5-2 system, with reference to the strengths and weaknesses in the attacking and defensive phases.

2. 3-5-2 Tactics against different Formations
The chapter 2 is focused on examining the 3-5-2 system against many different formations in both phases: 4-4-2 / 4-2-3-1 / 4-3-3 / 4-3-1-2 / 3-5-2 / 3-4-3

For the attacking phase, 3 different situations are examined:
- Overcoming the First Line of Pressing (Build-up Play from the Back)
- Moving the Ball in Between the Opposition's Midfield and Defensive Lines
- Playing in Behind the Opposition's Defensive Line

For the defensive phase, 2 different situations are examined:
- Pressing and Defensive Organisation
- Organisation of the Defensive Line

3. Training Session Examples
In the last chapter, we organise our 3-5-2 tactical practices into 8 specific training sessions:
- Build-up Play from the Back
- Playing Through the Lines
- Switching Play
- Playing in Behind the Defensive Line
- Combined Movements of the 2 Forwards
- Transition from Attack to Defence
- Aggressive Pressing
- Organisation of the Defensive Line