Sometimes, there’s more to the beautiful game than meets the eye. Delve deeper with Analysts’ Corner, presented by EC Managed IT, a new blog featuring tactical insights from Whitecaps FC video analyst coach Andrew Peat, assistant video analyst Luke Summers, and Academy and assistant first team video analyst Andrew Foster.
This article will focus on ideas based on individual defending. This is a broad topic and relates to specific contextual scenarios in which players are to make decisions on how to defend. Individual defending is also closely linked to 1v1 defending and the skillset that the player has to execute “effective” defending.