| It can be done by defending in different ways and closing the ball in different areas of the pitch. For instance Chelsea play a higher tempo, closing all over the pitch that makes the opposition have to pass faster or pressures them into mistakes in midfield or sometimes their own half. Arsenal are happy to let a team retain posession and enter their half because they have fast forwards so will try to win back possesion in their own half to break with speed against less defenders. Basically controlling the tempo of the game normally depends on how you play without the ball rather than with it. |