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Build-upRepresentativeTactics

Receive and escape pressure in one touch

Perfect the first touch that takes the ball away from pressure and creates the next passing angle — the first touch away from pressure was a thin topic and decides whether the build-up dies or lives.

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Load

minutes
12
Intensity
Medium
Sets and reps
2 × 6

Microcycle days it fits

MD-4, MD-3

Each bar’s height is that day’s dive ceiling.

Setup

Goalkeepers
1
server
0
outfield player
3

Space: 26 × 18 m

Equipment: Balls, Full goal, Bibs

The coach serves and manages the breaks.

2 steps

The goalkeeper receives with a presser arriving from one direction. The first touch must take the ball to the free side, immediately creating the passing line to that side’s centre-back.

Exercise sequence

Coaching points

  • The first touch is into the free space, away from pressure — never to the feet or where the presser is going.
  • The touch already opens the next pass’s angle: receive to resolve, not to control for its own sake.
  • Open the body before the ball arrives, so the touch can go any direction without telegraphing.
  • Read the pressure direction before receiving — the right touch depends on knowing where the presser comes from.

Progressions

  1. Angled pressure shutting one side.
  2. Add a second presser.

Regressions

  1. Predictable frontal pressure.
  2. Pressure arriving later.

Sources · 2

  1. Book«Coaching the Complete Goalkeeper» — metodologia holandesa
  2. BookLeonhard Zeilinger e Franz Gruber, «The Ultimate Guide to Goalkeeper Training: Develop Motor Skills, Technique, Tactics, and Mindset» (Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2025), ISBN 9781782552918