Indeed, I have watched Spurs (and Dortmund is a poor example; Spurs largely fielded their B side and were quite content to exit). I am also familiar with the sport of football, should you be interested, and presses can be executed in more than one way. The way Rayo pressed was demonstrably less structured than Poch's sides or Pep's Barca side or any of the innumerable other teams who utilize a high press that I have seen. In a well-executed press, the risk is mitigated because a second group of players positions themselves such that they can harass any of the likely targets for a pass, allowing the primary pressers to recover and creating additional opportunities to take the ball away. Rayo was all over the damned place; personnel may have played a role, but when the team can consistently be dissected with a simple sideways pass to beat the press and a more adventurous ball forward into now-vacated acres of space, and that problem persists for four years, there is also a problem with the set up of the team.
