gegenpressing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tactic in which a team, after losing possession of the ball, immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup.
Uncountable
verb
present participle and gerund of gegenpress
Example Sentences
- "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."