Transition · Benfica v Sporting · 10 min
Rest defence: the three players who decide the counter
The counter-attack you concede is decided while you still have the ball, by three players nobody is watching.
Rui Barbosa · 15 August 2026 · 7 clips
Key moments
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In possession
Where the back three stand while the ball is forty yards away.
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The turnover
Two seconds. Who steps, who drops, who covers the far side.
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The outcome
The same turnover, with a poor rest shape, twelve minutes later.
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