How to keep possession: Be forward-thinking

By Huw Davies
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The first in our eight part series on keeping hold of the ball, courtesy of Arsenal and England midfielder, Jack Wilshere. Lesson one: Be forward thinking

It's analysed every 10 minutes during televised games, used to gauge how well a team are performing and is (supposedly) nine-thenths of the law. Whatever your views on possession, one thing is for sure - it's pretty important.

In any match, both teams will always get the ball - the difficulty is in keeping it.

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Huw Davies

Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.