Panathinaikos: High tension, pressing and “we are all running” from Alonso! (vids)

High tempo in today’s training Panathinaikou by Diego Alonso to ask for pressing and full running.

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* The first requests for Diego Alonso at Panathinaikos are speed, intensity and pressing. The Uruguayan coach worked on them yesterday, but he did it today to an even greater extent. In a training… in red, lasting about 1 hour and 50 minutes (!), the “greens” ran a lot, put out full intensity under the instructions of the technician of the “clover” and his partners.

* After the necessary warm-up, which included resistance tire exercise, but also the rondo, which had tremendous intensity and constant exhortations from Alonso and his team of footballers to not stop and give it their all, the weight fell on part of pressing and transition. Initially, the soccer players were divided into three sixes, having four goals in a small space and worked on pressing and recovering the ball while trying to score in the small goals.

* The sequel was even more intense! Alonso split his players into two teams, which spread across 2/3 of the pitch to work on pressing and transition. The teams were the following:

Orange: Lilo (Karakassidis), Jedvai, Tsokai, Vaiannidis, Fikai, Ruben, Nikas, Vilena, Mancini, Bregou, Geremegev.

Greens: Xenopoulos, Arao, Senkefeld, Katris, Kyriopoulos, Zeka, Trouillet, Djuricits, Kriparakos, Dabizas.

* The orders were clear from Alonso. “We push and we don’t stop“, said the Uruguayan coach and asked for high intensity and high pressing specific instructions in attackers and midfielders. One team pressed and tried to recover the ball and the other had possession and had to break the press to get out in transition.

* “We all run”, shouted Alonso when he saw that the rhythms were falling. The Shamrock manager wants to build a team that will play in red, run and press and he knows that will happen through continuous work. There were not a few times that Alonso clapped and shouted “nice” when he saw that the players performed the exercise as he wanted. Instead, he shouted “more focus” when he saw mistakes effortlessly.

*At the end of the program and after the footballers cooled down with water and headed to the locker room, the defensive quartet (Arao, Schenkefeld, Vagiannidis, Fikai on one side, Gedvai, Tsokai, Katris Kyriopoulos on the other) were left on the grass, along with Dabiza and the goalkeeper Lilo. Alonso’s partner Diego Gabriel Raimondi took over and the… menu had defensive balance and harmony lessons. The exercise had to do with the correct distances of the defense, the placements and how the four will behave either in a frontal attack, or in balls in the back of the defense.

* Absent from training was Yuri Lodygin who is dealing with back problems.

* Palmer Brown and Hordur Magnusson stayed in the gym.

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