AC Milan decided to make a video of yesterday’s training session in the United States available to the public on their YouTube channel, and some of Paulo Fonseca’s prompts could be seen.
As Radio Rossonera write, we have already clearly seen two of the key concepts Fonseca has been preaching during the first two friendlies of the summer, because Milan are pressing high (at the right moments) and are building out from the back.
In a video published on the club’s official YouTube channel, part of one of the latest training sessions in the United States is shown. It features an exercise explained by Fonseca and his staff and then carried out by the players.
The objective is easy to see: the new head coach wants the squad to improve the speed and quality of their pressing when not in possession and to clean up the way that they play out of the press, something we saw against Rapid Wien and Manchester City.
The game starts with the goalkeeper in possession, who looks for the best solution to begin building out from the back. The goal of the one who has the ball is to get it to the goalkeeper positioned in the opposite goal without losing control.
If the ball is recovered by the opponents, then they tried to go up the other end and score a ‘goal’ themselves (by finding the keeper who is in the opposite net).
The mission is to get the players to think before passing the ball but to do so quickly, to improve their decision making, to minimise the touches before moving the ball and of course to press more effectively.
During the video you can clearly hear Fonseca’s message addressed to the Milan players: “Attract pressure, we always have the solution.”