How often people need to repeat themselves, that it's not about the tactic but about the players executing it.
Strangly that's exactly what Bayern did successfully in Paris (until the red card obviously). What happened here, Paris doesn't know how to play against a defensive-line standing in the midfield? They have worse players than Brugge to send their forwards into 1vs1 situations? Why didn't they score againt Bayern's high-line?
It just proves, that this system can always be successful, as long as the requirements for it are met. Opponents adapting, gives away many options for 1vs1, it's all bullshit. It's either the requirements are met or not. Players are capable and believe in the system or not. I translated a good post on the last site on that topic
Btw, I looked at the full sequence, not just the bit you present here to say it's exactly the same as our pressing under Flick.
Here is the full sequence.
1. Marquinhos on the ball, passes it to the keeper. Probably to try to lure PSG into the type of pressing Barca did, make them expand.
2. Keeper has the ball. Note several things.
a) Kane keeps position and he is not interested to press Chevalier. Bayern not interested in pressing here. If he presses Chevalier here he simply passes to one of the open teammates.
b) By not pressing the keeper and the centerbacks here, Kane helps form a 3 vs 2 in the middle of the pitch.
If you follow Barca match vs PSG we had several instances where we mindlessly pressed the keeper and the CBs. Nothing lke that here.
3. This is actually the negative pass by PSG that triggers the aggressive man to man press. It's a pass that puts Marquinhos in a bad position by Vitinha, and from this moment it becomes very difficult for PSG to play through the press. After this moment you see full press from the entire Bayern team.
But the key difference is the aggressive press doesn't start by default, but based on clear triggers. This is a full 20 seconds of possession for PSG and Bayern initially don't press at all, then press lightly only key players from PSG, and only when they can make the biggest damage with lowest risk they go for aggressive pressing.
4. At this point PSG cornered themselves and can only play long ball. Marquinhos plays a poor pass to Hakimi and Bayern's press is deemed a success. Notice the position of Luiz. He's their LW.
So, already several important differences. Keeper is rarely pressed. Pressing doesn't get triggered by default. It's conditional and situational. Pressing doesn't go crazy mode form the start, but after PSG players dwell on the ball and play several back passes. Only then full aggressive man to man pressing is triggered, when the risk is minimal as PSG lost any good option of progression on the ball.
