Exploring football tactics is a story about various strategies before a game and during a game. What to do when all these different strategies with varying match objectives, that create unique characteristics for every game, collide. We have learned for ages that offensive tactics are better than defensive tactics, because naturally, it is pleasant more fun for us to watch two open teams that defend little.
The English Premier League is, for example, one of the most open Leagues. For instance, in the five matches that José Mourinho, trained the Manchester United against the Arsenal, West Ham United, Southampton, Newcastle, and Leicester City, all of them at Old Trafford, it was noticed that, on average, the amount of defensive players, defensive midfielders, and attackers involved in the aforementioned team’s offensive process was significant. The data continues to be in Manchester United 3–2 Arsenal as of the best match that the Manchester United team made during this period since their defensive process was concentrated and their Offensive Process was very effective and attractive.
One of the most important aspects of football is to understand every field space corresponds to a different phase of the game. Defensive and offensive actions have a different level of efficiency depending on the field and instant of the game. The Low Block is taking place in our times as a tight strategy with a considerable efficiency. This paper will explain what the Low Block is, the necessary conditions for it to happen, the basic concepts that one has to take in consideration when embracing it, the defensive and attacking gestures, and the different characteristics of the offensive and defensive styles