Taras Dmitrik about a man who got a job in football, analyzing the games of teams on his website.

Football is quite conservative and closed to people from outside. First you play, then go to the courses, become a coach (if you're lucky, then immediately the team), you can choose the path of the scout, the agent. All the doors are open, because you played football.

Julian Nagelsmann and Domenico Tedesco are the main faces of the revolution, they are a new football generation that shows that the concept of "football coach" is not at all connected with the great experience of playing at a professional level.

Behind their backs, in the shadows, is a man with an even more incredible story, one of the youngest professional coaches right now - 25-year-old Renee Maric. This spring, in tandem with Marco Rosa, he brought Salzburg to the quarter-finals of the Europa League, examining the game of Borussia to the pits.

In other matters, it is not for the first time. In 2011, Marich and his friend, while still a student, created the site Spielverlagerung. de, where meticulously dismantled football matches. They barely fulfilled 18 years, and a year later they were already traveling to meet with the head coach of Majets Thomas Tuchel. He was impressed by the analysis of his team's game against Bavaria and wanted to find out how they managed to do it.

Since that moment a lot has changed. Marich wrote several books about football tactics, worked as an analyst in Brentford and Mitjulland. Not surprisingly, because these clubs are the same reformers - they were among the first to apply mathematical models and advanced statistics in the work of the club.

In 2014, Marich figured out in his text the game of the youth team of Salzburg, making it in his style more like a scientific thesis. So began his relationship with Marco Rosa - then head coach of the team U-18. Constant discussions about the methods of training and hegenpreting led to the fact that in 2016 Renee Marich became an assistant coach in the team U-19.

A year later they won the Youth League of Champions. Marco Rose went on promotion, taking with him and the young Marich. Now they are creating a new story.

How does the ideal pressure system work As an absolute outsider in the confrontation with Borussia, the "bulls" practically did not allow the Germans to organize positional attacks.

Salzburg blocked all possible options, forcing central defenders to pass between themselves or to cast far ahead.

This was not a plan specifically for Dortmund. Red Bull so passed Real Sociedad and also plays in the championship. Just Austrians are able to twist some cogs, based on the characteristics of the team.

Against Borussia, the main task was to cut off the center of the field. Daoud and Weigl, the central midfielders of the bumblebees, were under guardianship from all sides, having no access to the ball. Thus, the German club was deprived of its main strength.

Whenever one of them managed to get the ball, a player from the depth was connected, who forced his pressure back. There were already involved in the work of the attackers.

It is impossible to press all 90 minutes, this is not enough physical strength. For this, Rosa and Marich had a passive pressure model in reserve, when the players were still high up, but forced the opponent himself to fall into his pressure-traps.

Weigl falls under the goalkeeper's pass, leaving behind a large space. It was expected that after him the pressure would turn on No. 42, since the attackers guarded the defenders and could not switch. So, Daud will get a huge space in the center.

But Salzburg was one step ahead. Due to the fact that No. 42 remained in his position, he could calmly control the actions of Daud, blocking the line for him. This also allowed the player on the flank to concentrate completely on the fullback of Borussia and not be torn between Daoud and his personal opponent on the flank. Having received the ball, Weigl did not have any options.

Zones on the border of the half-flanks and the center of the field - a kind of starting hook for the active phase of pressure. If one of the players in Dormund managed to get the ball in the area in which Daud tried to break into the past example, the Salzburg players pounced on him like vultures, forcing him to act panically.

In the 1/16 finals Real Sociedad tried to destroy the pressure plan of the Austrians, dropping an additional player from the center of the field below. The Spaniards hoped to put Salzburg in front of a difficult choice: if one of the bullfighters of the "bulls" falls behind this player, then there is a free space in the area of ??the central circle where the player from the attack group of Real. With the second option, Sociedad just gets one more player in the raffle.

But it did not work. Soccer players Red Bull are located on the field in such a way that they are able to control all the options for getting the ball, without sacrificing anything at all.

Interesting were the actions of the Austrian club and with the active attacking actions of the opponent. When the attack unfolded on one of the flanks, the pressure switch was connected to the pressure, leaving its zone. But it can not be left empty, so the attacker could go down there, or the central midfielder could rise.

The problem was solved due to the displacement of one of the flanking midfielders bulls in the center. This allowed Salzburg to actively put pressure, without sacrificing the structure of defense.

About the effectiveness of pressure, the figures say - this season only 5% positional attacks rivals Salzburg finish blows. The bulls themselves demonstrate an indicator of 11% of the implementation of such attacks.

In 2011, the 18-year-old Marich, launched his project Spielverlagerung. de, because, as he himself says, I wanted to learn about football more and more. Seven years later, together with Marco Rosa, he prepares his team for the match of the 1/4 finals of the Europa League against Lazio. For this he did not need the experience of playing as a football player.

"If you understand football, then for you only a plus, if you have not played anywhere professionally. There is a lot of time to study sports when knowledge is given easily, "says Rene.