What actually is Rest Defence?

[@ankaramesi3824]

Van dijk has been a master of rest defence this season

[@InTecknicolour]

he been doing it for like 3 seasons, only being burnt by it the last 2

[@thierryhenry674]

Rest defence means the number of players that are remaining for defending. Having a good rest defence means having good enough number of players to be ready for transition. It’s describing a strategy, a group of people. Not a single person. You can say “VVD is good in transition because he reads the game well.” Or “Klopp’s team managed transition well as his team has good rest defence to prepare for the transitions.”

[@benconlin3032]

Also trent because he always caught sleeping in defence.

[@juniorkhomari1850]

Actually he's been liverpools best defender at times. They've looked horrible without him

[@h4ndrix]

tell us how you didn't watch the video without telling us.

[@simonebelardinelli9168]

In Italy we call it "Marcature Preventive" which translates to "Preventive Marking", that is more of a task each defensive player has to have (when attacking) for the opponent's attacking player.

[@lukasdalhaug4211]

Translates to the exact same term we use in norway!

[@enzorossi9853]

In Argentina we call it roughly "Marking in attack"

[@bighands69]

@@lukasdalhaug4211 It is called cover or counter defence in English football culture. I think because English is so widely spoken that people do not understand that there is terms used in British football as well because that is where football as we know it came from.

[@riqui8616]

@@bighands69 exactly. To me, it sounds just like a bad translation from Ten Hag, who isn’t known for being excellent in English. In Dutch it’s called restverdediging, which translates directly to the German version used in this video. I’d like to know if anyone in England used this term before Ten Hag made his introduction because to me it just sounds like he came up with another way of saying cover.

[@MrAdrien1999]

Wow, Joe’s pronounciation of verteidigung just gave me shivers

[@hghtrfnko8634]

Man I would love to see your reaction to seeing a blue car or trying a donut.

[@notsodumb51]

Yes, he could easily have asked anyone who knows German, it's a simple rule about ei and ie

[@TCStink3]

@@notsodumb51or just used Google Translate

[@shesh32]

It's the kind of defence Koulibaly and co are doing for Chelsea and Maguire did for Utd

[@pm-hw6ht]

When the oldest defender is the only one awake...

[@windofchange-u7s]

maguire is just resting not rest defending dude

[@anthonycokoye]

New terminologies, technologies, and roles but the fundamentals of football remain the same. To me, this is what truly sets it apart from other sports. Nice analyses, as always, Team Tifo!

[@atedojaja5390]

Tifo thank you for analyzing another football terminology

[@AJD...]

You're welcome

[@Nabzo]

Rest defence isn’t real it’s just something Jon Mackenzie made up one night in his sleep

[@krish4246]

😂 Tell that to top managers & analysts at the top level

[@PrabhavKhandelwal]

This is an elaborate scheme by Jon

[@BestBoyPatrick]

@@krish4246no such thing. It’s just Jon

[@ivanbiggen2935]

Fing mug cun7

[@benharmon7369]

Jon’s level of denial is increasing. He has gotten Ten Hag in on it too.

[@Truffle_Pup]

I wish you would release these at say 9.00-9.30pm, Joe's soothing voice just makes me feel all warm and sleepy.

[@lonestarr1490]

Why would you want to feel sleepy in the middle of the day?

[@frlipa]

@@lonestarr1490 9:30 pm is not middle of the day

[@lonestarr1490]

​@@frlipa You're as funny as glass shards in vanilla pudding.

[@mjt-k3x]

@@lonestarr1490 You're as funny as a comedian doing the best stand up set of their life

[@kwazilucas]

I love this channel so much.

[@boris1509]

me too man, me too

[@3phone16]

your pfp..it's not centered.. help

[@kwazilucas]

@@3phone16 how do you mean its not centered

[@shawngillogly6873]

Marsch was using it even last season. Which isn't surprising, as it's a key component in counterpressing systems (like Marsch's adaptation of Rangnick-ball, or Klopp's Dortmund and early Liverpool Heavy Metal Football), and is a frequent talking point in German football. Not surprising Ten Hag, with his connections to Bayern, would pick up the vernacular of the counterpress.

[@andreimanoloiu9085]

Very interesting video, great quality as always 💪🏻

[@cru3l525]

Solid video. Thank you for explaining concepts in such a simplified, easy to understand- matter. Subbed

[@andreasfasl6403]

Just some native German speaker here. I sometimes wonder how many innovations in football come from Germany. Gegenpress, Rest defence…. Restverteidigung is a term that is so frequent in Germany. It wonders me that there isn’t an English term for that. Good Video none the less

[@dagoldenexperience]

Buh no one defends in the bundesliga

[@andreasfasl6403]

@@dagoldenexperience well I can’t deny that at the moment when looking at the recent games. But if I had to chose between a boring 0:0 in the prem or a 6:1 destruction of Freiburg I choose the second one.

[@bighands69]

Those concepts such as Rest defence and Gegenpress already existed in British football. And through different eras were popular. At one point Total football or team football was fairly prevalent in British football but then faded out of popularity. At one point offensive football was very popular in Britain with Sir Alex Ferguson being the last manager in Britain to practice it. It was very popular in Scottish football. Rest defence would normally be described as counter attack defence or just defence.

[@Nefariousbig]

I think it's just a quirk of the construction of German language/phrases and how that leads to things being named in a very matter of fact way. It feels like you guys enjoy having a proper word for things, usually being a very forthcoming/direct combination of existing words. So it makes sense that you would often find yourselves with these sorts of newish terms. It's like having Chocolatedoughnuts instead of chocolate doughnuts. I don't know enough German to find a proper example but I think you get what I mean.

[@Chilavertish]

I'm not sure that it's the innovations coming from German football but rather the terms. Rest defence is how teams don't commit everyone to attacking when they have the ball - that's not new. Having a term for it like that is new. We had a type of gegenpress in the Irish team of Jack Charlton : he just called it "putting em under pressure" 😄

[@lithimgwebi323]

Your videos are just spectacular

[@VSS031]

Too Much Bro!

[@LoightaFluwid]

Rest defence is when Eric Dier went to take a dump mid game during 20-21 season

[@regacc3594]

wow ... man what an explanation and i especially liked how you linguistically analysed the term 👏

[@darrenchin_]

crazy how coaches with Instagram and LinkedIn accounts are able to reinvent words like "positioning", "transition" and "shape" into some PhD level thesis

[@anelesiguqa]

🤣😂

[@hobinrood710]

Crazy how kids with Twitter and the same IG, are able to invent words like "woke", "yeet" and "rizz". It's not on any doctorate level. Hahahahhaha

[@Matthews_Dintwe]

Dude, it's what I was thinking.

[@T.E.S.S.]

jon is having the time of his life with today's videos

[@coop4476]

The art is getting better!! Thanks!

[@anasschiban5093]

its actually very commonly used in Holland, implemented in all league teams

[@JPS_Originals]

Also in other parts of the Netherlands aswell, or only Holland?

[@marketlider2811]

You mean the burgundian Kingdom?

[@vonelle9122]

It’s a very common phrase in Dutch football

[@adhx7506]

But its german made.

[@vonelle9122]

@@adhx7506 incredible👏🏽

[@chukwuemekaorji9331]

I love the atlectic so much

[@crispykneecaps7209]

It's funny how this term is so new but it's something everyone already knows about and has done for a long time. Even in the most amateur social Sunday leagues, the centre backs will discuss who goes up for a corner and who stays back.

[@yoyomama99]

nah you dont get it. Rest defence also discusses the "where" and "when" of positioning, instead of just the "who"

[@crispykneecaps7209]

@@yoyomama99 yeah, the "when" in that case would be an attacking corner and the "where" would be staying back. Obviously this stuff is more complicated at elite levels. That should go without saying. Just weird that this was not given its own name a long time ago.

[@jiujitsubassist]

I swear that at the beginning of the video, I made a joke to myself saying that rest defence meant, "when some players attack, the rest defends(ce)." I didn't actually know what the term meant when I started watching this but then I was right all along?

[@hostilegamingz]

thats pretty damn funny

[@oslonorway547]

I was expecting it already because in Norwegian, rest means remainder. But at some point in the video I feared he would say it means relax, because that couldn't possibly be what Ten Hag meant. 😂

[@bejam1]

Jon Mackenzie definitely wrote this hoping that Jessie Marsch might take notice!

[@NiceGuyAdmiral]

Usually a huge fan of Tifo. but this was just the same thing over and over again for the first 3 minutes.

[@AliManiify]

The comment section is wild. This video is literally an explanation of the word, and people still use the wrong meaning.

[@ricozkirihara2798]

the memeing is too stronk.

[@ArcticTemper]

Should call it the 'Else Defence' so it isn't confusing and is adopted faster, imo

[@minimalist1911]

Basically for the best form of rest defense, u be more compact, and stay slightly deeper in order to deal with quick transitions from the opposition. 2 players will do.

[@dzamburger]

as a native german speaker i must admit that your pronounciation of verteidigung is very funny

[@BarriesChannel]

Very well explained!

[@beny1366]

The ETH is really going to the right direction! I'm really happy for United

[@macgregorcox7280]

Regression to the mean. Anything very below average is likely to be closer to the average in the future

[@nownezz]

you totally slaughtered the german pronounciation 🐸it should be something like ver-tigh-dee-gung. anyway top video as always!

[@greengiant2732]

The ei in “Restverteidigung” is pronuonced like “I” as of me. Not “e” like you did. Substantially good video thogh

[@gracelandtoo6240]

To add to that, the is not pronounced like a w (/v/), but like an f (/f/).

[@reintaler6355]

To add to that, the first ''r'' is pronounced with the back of your mouth rather than the front.

[@notsodumb51]

Yes, a great video but it's a pity he didn't ask a German speaker how to pronounce the term

[@yan.weather]

Well delivered.

[@hersliselimaj417]

The Goblin King must be very happy for this video

[@TristanPaulFrom6pm]

I am a German and was really confused because I also thought you meant Rest defence as a sleeping defence. Even though I know the word from German.

[@Scoutsourced]

its also called offensive cover. the attackers covering for those on the ball in case they lose it.

[@nathanngumi8467]

Very informative!

[@Jakeindbox]

very interesting video!

[@phebbyluchembe4148]

What are overlapping and under lapping runs in football?

[@swaggyp1651]

This basically what balance is when a shot goes up in basketball to stop the fast break. Surprised this is new in soccer.

[@mariadanielalavia8877]

It's not new in soccer, it's been practiced for ages. From Milan's Arrigo Sacchi in the 80's, Catenaccio in the 60's with Herrera, Germany's victory in 1990 WC. Let's see, Johan Cruyff dream team in the 90's with Barcelona, Boca Juniors winning 5 Libertadores (south american version of champions league) and winning 2 club world cups against AC Milan and Real madrid in the 2000's. it's just the premier league and english football watchers who have no clue around this all. no wonder they never won a world cup since 1966.

[@epicmarschmallow5049]

@@mariadanielalavia8877 It's not new in the premier league. The word is German so some people don't know what it means and lots of people (in all countries) don't pay attention to tactics in Football

[@Wiintb]

4:05. I fell of the chair when you put 10 🐷 in that elite list! And so No Goals Man.

[@deniz5158]

Conte calls his whole team rest defence

[@lordrindfleisch1584]

Just a small detail about your German pronounciation. Ei in German, as in verteidigung, is pronounced like the word eye. Otherwise, great video

[@mosesmoeletsi8005]

Oh he was referring to this when asked about casemiros mistake in the barca game.

[@swifty123]

Rest defence is what Brazil used against Germany back in 2014. They were all sleeping.

[@alexandreIgor_bs]

As a Brazilian I can confirm that, and that rest was so good that before most of those players recover their football, like David Luiz, Hulk, Thiago Silva, Marquinhos. Just incredible that this thing has to happen on a world cup 😓

[@Ackshuallymmm]

Move on bro

[@terencedhlamini7682]

so rest defense is just to mitigate counter attacks

[@bighands69]

It is called counter attack defence or defence in British football. Rest defence is a simple word that will replace those terms.

[@dermotw4355]

Tifo could ye stop making almost every video about Man United. Honestly your a quality channel spread the content to other teams

[@pratiktandel5706]

shows how complex this game is.

[@1998-k3x]

f*cking love this channel

[@thargoff]

Comment section today: 1. listing all bad defenders who are resting and not the rest of them😄 2. how can Joe not pronounce a difficult German word properly 😜

[@adhx7506]

How is it difficult? It would be pronounced just as its written, like everything in german since the german language doesnt rely on accent.

[@thargoff]

@@adhx7506 Well, but English works completely differently. Different letters/letter combinations are different sounds in the two languages, some sounds don't exist or are not common in English. If you don't know the German sound-letter correlation, then it is hard.

[@epicmarschmallow5049]

@@adhx7506 it's not pronounced as it is written in English. "Ver" is pronounced differently in English, "ei" is pronounced differently and "dung" is pronounced differently. So whilst a German native would have no problem pronouncing the word at first glance, an English native would be thrown

[@adhx7506]

@@epicmarschmallow5049 Thats not what I meant. German doesnt rely on accent - everything is pronounced just as its written. Same thing with latin - its pronounced just as its written. The "spoken as written" rule doesnt change from language to language.

[@DenDave_]

To clarify; a more accurate translation would be 'remainder defense', rather than rest defense. Using the English word rest probably causes misconceptions.

[@bighands69]

It is just knownin English footballer as the counter attacking defence or just the defence. Rest defence will just get added because it is simpler as a term. But the meaning is still contained in British football.

[@mamutakada]

@@bighands69 actually, it is "preventive defence".

[@bighands69]

@@mamutakada That is not the term used in British football. It is known as the counter attack defence, counter defence or just counter. It all has the same meaning at the end of the day.

[@mamutakada]

@@bighands69 indeed, i just thought Preventive def makes more sense (at least to me) than counterattacking defence or reset defence or whatever else.

[@adhx7506]

Doesnt matter, its said this way since its a german word. Just as you call it gegenpress, even though the translation would be counterpress.

[@socalred16]

Am I wrong or is this just another term for transition defense?

[@timorossenaar5735]

Pleased to see this term that is used in Dutch punditry for years is used worldwide from the last years on

[@n0body550]

So basically it means “The rest” of the defence left. But that would be too short of a video. 😂

[@mochabear88]

ty

[@janisschmid3880]

„ei“ in german is pronounced a bit like „I“ in english.

[@willgraham4279]

Do a video on why teams are so good after the manager gets sacked

[@batu3689]

So that's basically... transition play, a term we already have, in a defensive perspective. Not rocket science guys...

[@RobbeSeolh]

ei is pronounced ai in German ie is a long i as in thief or the German translation Dieb ("deep") except for french loans such as Concierge then the pronounciation is je. Rest is from Latin, Rast is English rest.

[@OCDean73]

2:51 35sec explanation here is all you need. Seriously, you have too much time on your hands and maybe too much of an editing budget because you don't need all that.

[@will_from_pa]

Rest defense is what Jon Mackenzie does when Joe tries to call/message him when he’s asleep

[@thomasdunn7580]

Another video on rest attack inbound no doubt

[@Kanbei11]

WC Spain being the exception to that whole let's use our possession to score thing

[@slayerbee]

Verteidigung = Defence 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️

[@tstwimo1944]

4:10 TIL Ten Hag & Guardiola have the same head.

[@rothbardfreedom]

Just have Courtois on goal. No need for defense with him there.

[@mamutakada]

The propper term would be - Preventive Defence.

[@rickyspanish4792]

Maybe we can simplify that into 'Prefence'

[@adhx7506]

It wouldnt. Its Restverteidigung.

[@HT3897]

So if your "rest defence" isnt that good there is no reason to push so many players up front

[@deec.9575]

So nobody gonna talk about how Rashford and Casemiro had a kid and he ended up on this video’s thumbnail?

[@SportsFan0027]

I kinda figure out what it meant but this is well explained nonetheless

[@mariadanielalavia8877]

Everyone has been doing it for ages, Tifo just loves to trivialize tactics, talking about them so the "commoners" can know about it, but it's nothing weird any pro, semi pro, amateur coach or even a geek for football haven't heard about. he talks like managers just discovered the wheel when these things were and have been used for at least +70 years of professional football. If you think this is new you are either 10 years old or have been sleeping the whole time when watching games.

[@tamratdagne5449]

in simple words rest defence is defending counter attacks

[@Kisarez]

It isn't. Actual defending is defending. Restdefence is the preparedness of defending during attacking.

[@SilliusSodus]

Cadiz nuts

[@Chris-zs6fd]

Not even watched the video yet but this has Jonathan "Dog" Mackenzie allllllll o'er it!!

[@blaaaz3]

So this is offensive marking. Nothing new. But well explained in video👍

[@geordiedog1749]

Fascinating. English premiership football is about to be a continuous war between four managers.

[@legalactivity6977]

Back in the day we would say when you are attacking made sure you shut the back door.

[@juandelacruz7335]

Didn't even care if the video was great. The thumbnail had me already lol

[@gehanoates885]

This is why Maguire plays less games.

[@kaamilalli1833]

Tifo please please do video in 18:9, phones are bigger now guys.

[@DenDave_]

Is this really an unknown term in England? Ten Hag has been talking about it his entire time at Ajax, it's nothing new

[@bighands69]

The concept is known in the UK but it is not called Rest Defence. Counter attack defence is normally how it is described. Or simply defending when you lose the ball is another way of describing it. Cover is another term that gets used and so on.

[@thomraider9193]

the way Joe pronounced "Verteidigung" really made me cringe :D

[@pysky4u]

It’s actually a pretty common term in the eredivisie

[@ragecandy]

I´m just excited to see the Utd manager being mentioned when explaining tactics, still got Ole ptsd 🥲

[@bighands69]

Ole would have succeeded if given enough time and money as would Jose or LVG. The difference is that Utd fans are at rock bottom and any improvements that Ten Hag makes are seen as progress and there is now more patients and his clear vision of football helps as well.

[@ragecandy]

@@bighands69 My man, he spent almost 150mill just for Maguire, Van de Beek and Alex Telles, had 3 years, no player developed under him, Ten Hag steadied the ship in 6 months

[@bighands69]

@@ragecandy It is not clear if Ole Signed any of those players or was it the executive management of the club. Clearly Ole did not buy Van de Beek and then not select him.

[@stennostenno1346]

In german, 'ei' is pronounced like 'ay', not 'ee'

[@rickyspanish4792]

he also forgot to say it in allcaps

[@DanhawkKCC]

You mean to tell me that you don't pronounce Verteidigung as "wehrtiehdighng"?

[@notsodumb51]

​@@DanhawkKCC Simple rule for English speakers pronouncing German ei and ie; the second letter gives the sound, so ei (eye) whereas ie (as in be)

[@notsodumb51]

Also, German v is almost always pronounced like English f

[@Rizwaan122]

Going off the title I thought this was gonna be a Maguire compilation

[@Dalisu87]

Ten Hag is elite? So generous, the man hasn’t won’t anything in the prem and he’s elite suddenly

[@phoenixfire6559]

No wonder United are so good now. They have a one man rest defence in Casemiro.

[@danpreston564]

Vert-eye-digung. You always pronounce the second letter of EI or IE in German.

[@adhx7506]

I wonder if they are making those mistakes since E (for whatever reason) is pronounced as an I in english.

[@andijacobsen9148]

Fair-Tie-Dee-Goong Your phonetics sound more like wört-ei-deigong if pronounced by an english-speaker.

[@notsodumb51]

​@@adhx7506 No, ei is always pronounced like English "eye" and ie like the e in English "we"

[@wiraandhikawasisto3121]

Rest defence is what happened to manchester united in anfield this week

[@joaquinmayorga4961]

I'm still waiting for World Cup videos.

[@Yorkshireman5]

Its something leeds have done for the past two seasons.

[@jayfpliola8191]

So it's not rest as in relaxing but rather the rest of them that are left

[@bighands69]

In british football it is known as counter attack defence or cover. They all mean similar things.

[@Ambushhh111]

Wait ‘til you hear about Rest Attack 🤯

[@fahrulrazy]

I think 'remaining defence' is more appropriate term...

[@limfj05]

The best ETH defensive strategy is to "Rest" Maguire on the bench!

[@igrnge2883]

where's sensible transfers?

[@mervinphiri7562]

Isn't it that all teams use rest defence then?