Tactical Assumptions
Assumption 1
A team is playing with a 1-4-3-3 shape that in the building up that becomes a 1-3-2-4-1 with the movement forward of a center back, making a square in the center.
-How would you press their build-up phase?
-How would you attack them when you recover the ball?
Possible solution
We will face their build-up with a 1-4-4-2 shape where one of the strikers will guide the pressure to one of the full backs. The other striker will come to the center to join our 4 midfielders and placing them in intermediate positions we will have superiority and avoid that they break our line.
When they play with the left-back (3). We make our movements forward, and identify pressing moments (bad controls, bad body positions, players giving the back to our goal...) to try to recover the ball. We have to know that we need to avoid them to switch the play to our weak side. If that happens we take position back to try to press again.
In the offensive transition we will try to attack the spaces they leave us. As soon as we recover the ball, we place our striker between the center-back and full-back of the side we have the ball and our midfielder of that side will make a forward run. So if the full-back closes the space we will have space to our side midfielder and if he doesn't close our striker can receive and play 1v1. Our 2nd striker will attack the box and the midfielder make a diagonal movement and center midfielders will go forward to manage the 2nd ball or try to receive if we can't go forward after the first chance.