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Jack Lacey-Hatton

The low block: football tactics explained

Tactical explainer: low block.

Ahh, the low block. Making yourself hard to play against is one of the fundamentals to football coaching. You can have a team full of talented, technically excellent, footballers, but if you also have a soft underbelly, don’t expect results over a long hard season.

At times football is often talked about like a chess match, particularly when it comes to the tactical battle, and as we all know rule one of chess (probably) is to think, “which move would make things most uncomfortable for my opponent right now?” Then do it.

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