No prizes for guessing what Manchester United's players will be working on in training for the next 10 days.
The Red Devils do not play again in the Premier League until January 15, when they travel to Aston Villa and in that time they can expect to be chasing around Carrington pressing anything that moves.
United's interim manager, Ralf Rangnick, made his name by developing and refining the tactic, which has since been turned into an art form by Europe's most successful managers, Jurgen Klopp being the principal exponent.
Manchester United manager Ralf Rangnick is struggling to persuade his players to press
The Red Devils do not play again in the Premier League until January 15, against Aston Villa
So, it has been alarming to see that five games into his tenure at Old Trafford, Rangnick has struggled to persuade his new charges to pressurize their opponents and win the ball back high up the pitch.
While the United players responded to Rangnick's desire to force the issue in the opposition half in the new man's first two games, that intent has dissolved in the three matches that followed.
Eighteen minutes into the first half at home to Wolves on Monday it seemed the players had abandoned the approach altogether.
The away fans were chanting 'ole' as their gold-shirted players sprayed the ball all around the Theatre of Dreams, en-route to a comfortable victory.
It wasn't meant to be like this.
United struggled at home to Wolves and afterwards Rangnick admitted there was 'no pressing'
'High Turnovers' are the number of sequences that start in open play and begin 40m or less from the opponent's goal. 'Pressed Sequences' are the number of sequences where the opposition has three or fewer passes within 40m of their own goal. 'Direct Attacks' are where the ball is recovered just inside a team's own half to launch an attack and the 'Start Distance' is the average metres from a team's own goal that attacks begin. PPDA logs the number of passes a team allows the opponent to make before attempting to win the ball back. Source: Opta
'We didn't press at all,' conceded a troubled Rangnick at full time. 'We tried but we were not able to get into those pressing situations.'
Opta stats reveal that United have managed 12.6 pressed sequences per game under Rangnick, compared with 12.7 under former boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
There has been little change in other pressing metrics too, including high turnovers, or high turnovers leading to shots, or attacks launched high up the pitch.
The key component of any successful press is team work: Willing runners up front trigger the defensive actions of their team mates behind them. It is hard work and needs an unwavering commitment to back each other up.
The German manager has made pressing a key part of his football philosophy before United
