Die Mannschaft manager believes that the moment has arrived for the national team to improvise their game-play and start playing pressing football rather than playing on the counter-attack.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 national football team head coach Joachim Low suggested that the DFB-Eleven want to prepare for a more direct and pressing style of play in the forthcoming 2014 World Cup qualifying matches. He feels that his side will
need to change their strategy and stop playing on the mistakes of their rivals.
Die Nationalelf team was very impressive in the European Championships 2012 and the qualifiers before that finishing with a 100% record, but suffered a shock in the semi-finals of Euro 2012 at the hands of their Italian counterparts.
The German side showed their fast breaking football but were hard done when it really mattered.
Therefore, the 52-year-old trainer has vowed to help the side improve their skill to the top level and play more possession football like http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011. The manager conceded that they will need to adopt new strategy and let go of the tactics
of counter-attacking style of play in the upcoming qualifiers.
"We will have to completely change our tactics – which used to be, 'if we have the ball we are active, if not we drop back'," Low was quoted as saying in an interview.
The former Stuttgart and Fenerbahce boss maintained that the team will play high tempo pressing football regardless of the opposition. He said that they need to be more energetic in the defence as well as when going forward.
"Our aim in the next months will be to play a high pressing game, even against attacking sides. We have to be more active when defending without the ball,” he mused.
"Everyone has to play their part and this gives us quite a lot of work to do in training but we have to tackle this now. Before the European Championship there was not enough time," he finally concluded.
Low stressed that success will be achieved if a team effort is made and every player will need to perform to the highest level and train hard. He also admitted that they were not fully prepared for Euro 2012.
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