Descrição
Luis Enrique has built one of the most complete teams in world football at Paris Saint-Germain. His side won a historic treble in 2024/25 (UEFA Champions League, Ligue 1 and Coupe de France) and retained the Champions League in 2025/26 to complete a double, recording the highest average possession in Europe’s top five leagues at 69.4%.
UEFA A Licence coach and certified tactical analyst Vaios Stergiopoulos breaks down the exact patterns of play behind PSG’s success, covering build-up structures, pressing triggers, rotations and the “False 9” movements of the forward. With 57 tactics and 50 practices across 10 training sessions, this is a complete framework to coach Luis Enrique’s system.
This Book Teaches You How To:
- Play from the back with asymmetric structures so your players bypass the first pressing line with confidence and control
- Use your defensive midfielder as the connecting link to maintain possession and accelerate play through the lines
- Exploit width and create overloads so your wingers isolate opponents and open up space in central areas
- Use rotations and unbalanced attacking structures to overload one side and find free players in decisive areas
- Make penetrating runs into the final third so your central midfielders arrive late, unmarked and in goalscoring positions
- Win the ball back immediately with a 5-second counter-pressing trigger that keeps your team on the front foot
- Defend as a compact, coordinated unit and control space between the lines
Learn Luis Enrique’s Tactical Approach:
- Structured positional play with fluid rotations and collective attacking movement
- Numerical superiorities created through overloads and coordinated positioning
- Dominant ball circulation to control tempo and draw out the opposition
- 5-second counter-pressing to win the ball back immediately after loss
- Compact, organised defending that controls space between the lines
10 Tactical Principles Covered:
- Asymmetric Build-Up Play with Fluid Structures
- Defensive Midfielder as the Connecting Link
- Exploiting Width to Stretch Defences and Create Overloads
- The Free Central Midfielder’s Runs into the Final Third
- Rotations and Unbalanced Attacking Structures
- The “False 9” Attacking Movements of the Forward
- Immediate Ball Recovery with 5-Second Counter-Pressing
- Rest Defence Structure and Defensive Transition
- High Pressing with Man-Oriented Triggers and Sideline Traps
- Compact Defensive Blocks and Coordinated Defensive Movement
Each tactical principle is built from recurring patterns of play observed within Luis Enrique’s PSG team across Ligue 1 and Champions League matches, then converted into a full progressive training session.
This book gives coaches a complete, practical framework to implement Luis Enrique’s system, from academy to professional level.
Practice Examples:
- 10v6 (+GKs) Diamond Connections Possession Conditioned Game
- 7v3 (+GK) Positional Rondo with Defensive Midfielder as Central Link
- Wide Attack and Central Midfielder’s Half-Space Run Pattern
- Build-Up with “False 9” Creating a 3v2 Overload in the Attacking Zone
- Build-Up and Finish with a Vertical Pass into Zone-14 Pattern
- Ultra High Press with Strong-Side Overload Conditioned Game