Sepak bola merupakan olahraga yang sangat kompleks. Tujuan permainan sepakbola adalah pemain memasukkan bola sebanyak-banyaknya kegawang lawan dan berusaha menjaga gawang sendiri agar tidak kemasukan. Untuk menjaga gawang tim maka diperluka pertahanan tim yang solid. Dalam penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui sistem pertahanan tim Juventus FC di pertandingan 16 besar liga champions 2018 dan mengetahui model latihan bertahan tim Juventus  di pertandingan 16 besar liga champions 2018. Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah melakukan pengamatan proses bagaimana model latihan bertahan tim Juventus FC melawan Tottenham Hotspur FC di ajang Liga Champions 2018 dengan melihat faktor yang menyebabkan kesalahan pada pertahanan Juventus di video yang telah didownload. Setelah dilakukan pengamatan video maka dapat dianalisis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sistem pertahanan yang digunakan  oleh Juventus FC  adalah zona marking.  Juventus FC melakukan sistem pertahanan dengan baik, dimana dapat melakukan pressing-pressing didaerah pertahanannya sendiri, baik dalam melakukan transisi bertahan ke menyerang dan menyerang ke bertahan dengan tepat. Tetapi beberapa kali pemain Juventus FC lengah sampai lawan dapat melakukan tendangan yang bisa mengarah kegawang Juventus FC. Sedangkan model latihan bertahan yang dapat diterapkan oleh tim Juventus FC adalah latihan defending, konstruksi serangan dari tengah ke depan, menyelesaikan serangan dari tengah, bertahan setengah, lapangan dan presing atas, latihan presing atas, latihan presing, bertahan setengah lapangan, dan bertahan setengah lapangan, ¾ lapangan, press atas.

Kata kunci: sepakbola, sistem pertahanan, dan program latihan

Football is a very complex sport. The purpose of football is that players enter the ball as much as possible against the opponent and try to keep the goal itself so as not to concede. To keep the team's goal then a solid team defense is needed. The research aims to find out the defense system of the Juventus FC team in the 2018 champions league last 16 match and find out the defensive training model of the Juventus team in the 2018 champions league last 16. The method of this research is to observe the process of how to defend the Juventus FC team against Tottenham Hotspur FC in the 2018 Champions League by looking at the factors that caused errors in the Juventus defense in the downloaded video. After video observations can be analyzed. The results showed that the defense system used by Juventus FC was the marking zone. Juventus FC does a good defense system, which can do pressing-pressing in its own defense area, both in making a defensive transition to attack and attack to defend properly. But a number of times the Juventus FC players were off guard until the opponent could make a kick that could lead to Juventus FC. While the defensive training model that can be applied by the Juventus FC team is defending training, construction of attacks from the middle to the front, completing attacks from the middle, defending half, pitching and topping, top-level training, precision training, holding half the field and surviving half the field , ¾ field, upper press.

Keywords: football, defense system, and training program.