Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): 1v1 entry with Goal Behind

1v1s - Entry back to goal (20 mins)

Instructions:
- Red team plays to central teammate who has 3 touches to finish in a mini goal (diagonal entry) - open up drive and finish (unopposed)

-  Blue team then passes ball into Red and presses Red on pass

- If GK makes save, ball should be played to Blue for counter - 1 phase only

- Red scores both goals = 3 goals (otherwise - 1 goal only)

- Blue prevents shot = 1 goal

- Blue wins possession back and scores = 3

Coaching Points:

- Body position 

- Movement to separate to open on 1st touch

- Attack/drive into space behind

- Change of speed and cut across Defenders recovery line

- Create yard either side of defender to shoot

- Mentality to prevent shot from Blue Def

- Counter press loss of possession (red)

Keep score and swap after 4 rotations for each player...



3v3 Tournament (20 mins)

• 3v3 tournament.
• Every re-entry teams play pass into highest player with pressure on back, then play Live after 1st touch (example A above)
• If a team wins, they move up a pitch and if they lose they move down a pitch.
• Run games for 3-5 minutes.

• Try to encourage lots of 1v1s
• If odd numbers, one field can have neutral or number down team starts 1-0 up.
• If odd number of teams, then the team that wins on pitch 1 (the highest pitch) gets a rest and returns as champion to beat

Coaching Points

• Overload and exploit
• Positive 1st touch on the turn
• Movement to drag defenders away to exploit
• Penetrate vs Possession
• 1v1 with space behind
• Finish on the run