Meanings
- uncountableball gamesA tactic in which a team, after losing possession of the ball, immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup.
Not the kind of player you’d associate with the frenzied gegenpressing for which Jürgen Klopp’s name is a byword, the striker’s non-future with Liverpool is expected to be thrashed out by his agent Mino Raiola and Klopp in what the Rumour Mill imagines will be a fairly short conversation.
2015 October 26, Barry Glendenning, “Football transfer rumours: Pep Guardiola to manage Chelsea?”, in The GuardianSynonyms: counterpressing
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gegenpress
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA tactic in which a team, after losing possession of the ball, immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup.
Origin
- GermanGegenpressing
- Englishgegenpressing
Borrowed from German Gegenpressing, popularised by Ralf Rangnick (1958–), German football manager.
More words from German
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German Gegenpressing
- GegenpressingTranslations
Turkish Gegenpressing
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Cite this entry
gegenpressing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gegenpressing
“gegenpressing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gegenpressing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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