BREAKING PRESSURE IN FUTSAL - How to start attacks in 4-0 formation

Breaking pressure in futsal - how to start attacks

One of the most frequent mistakes, which lead to conceded goals are made near own goals - on own half of the futsal pitch. Most of the time it happens, when teams are being under pressure of an opponent and do not know, how to handle this pressure.

In this article we are going to take a look at how to start attacks in futsal and how to break opponent's pressure. You can break pressure with the help of different formations. Formations 3-1 and 4-0 are the ones, which are used more often on a professional level. Another formation, which is not as popular, but at the same time - still very effective is formation 2-2.

Breaking pressure in formation 4-0

In this particular case we are going to concentrate on the formation, which is called 4-0 formation. In order to break pressure in the formation 4-0, it's necessary to:

• rotate positions a lot
• know the basic rotations and moves
• work as a team
• support a player with the ball

Pressure, which your opponent is applying on you is not always a bad thing. You can use it to your favour. When opponent is pressuring your, that means, that your opponent is taking risks too - some zones on a futsal pitch in this case would be open. Therefore these zones can be used for your attacking runs and passes.

Here are some zones, which you may use to your favour.

Zone in the middle of a futsal pitch:

Zone on opponent's half of the pitch:

Breaking pressure in system 4-0: video 

Now let us take a look at one of futsal attacking combinations in formation 4-0, which is meant exactly to catch opponent off guard and counter-attack. Spanish futsal national team in this video is breaking pressure of Portugal futsal team.

With the perfect plan and execusion and a lot of training this combination in formation 4-0 helped to break pressure and score a very beautiful team goal. Watch full video of a combination along with Artyom Samoylov's tactical analysis and explanation of it:

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