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In this installment of the Soccer iQ series college soccer coach and best-selling author Dan Blank educates coaches and players on the most effective ways to implement a high-pressure style of team defending. Nearly 80% of goals scored are the result of three or fewer passes and more than half of all goals scored begin when a team wins possession of the ball in its attacking half of the field. The numbers clearly indicate a statistical advantage to winning the ball in the opponents end of the field and thats exactly what high pressure is designed to do. High pressure is perhaps the most misunderstood term in soccers vocabulary. There are countless coaches who want their teams to play high pressure but many of them arent always quite so sure about what that means. They tend to translate high pressure into run around like you stole something until we score. They only extract the urgency of which the term implies without much understanding of the nuance that makes high pressure a formidable system of team defense. Those coaches understand that high pressure requires a high work rate?? but they don??t understand the tactical savvy that can maximize the output of that work. A