Funneling Defense...

3v3 soccer teams that don't pass back or just boom the ball on kick-ins for 50/50 battles (where pressure man doesn't work) you can play funneling defense. Basic funneling is leaving your opponents weakest player open. Normally, the weakest player on a team doesn't fight very hard to get open. They are easy to markup, so I tell our players to leave those players open and mark tightly the good players. Once the ball is passed to the seemingly open person, then our players pounce.

This strategy only works when your opponent has players of different skill levels. When you get to Nationals, almost all the players are good so this won't work. But then, those teams are also structured so you can go into pressure man.