Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): USL Blue Defensive Low Block / Defensive Pressure

Technical (15 mins)

4 Rounds

3 Min Per Round

Raise Intensity As Rounds Go On

• Good Pace In Initial Pass

• Movement Off Reds Dictates Pass - Timing
• Receiving Back Foot & Playing Front Foot
• Progress To Bounce Every Pass

8v8 4 Zones (15 mins)

4 Zones

4 Red in two quarters

4 Blue in two quarters

Red is attacking east

Blue is attacking west

Red looks to pass into the next group of 4 and score on the 3 goals

You are locked to your zone

Blue must stay in there own zone and defend either the small goals or the zones

Focus on -

- Be patient

- Shift side to side to close gaps

- Get a shape with higher pressure, lower pressure, Hold our line and force central

- Anticipate the pass or shot 

Line of Confrontation

Defending in a 4-2-3-1

We keep dropping to the line of confrontation, and no deeper then the restraint line. Once they hit this line, we start pressing. Goal is to take away space behind and get compact.

Once attacking team hits the line we engage and squeeze middle.

Stay compact behind ball.

As ball goes wide, we force back in centrally to our #'s

When we win the ball, our first objective is to play a forward pass, link up with the 9, underneith to the 10 and out to 7/11 or straight in behind to the space

Get numbers into the attacking 1/2

If we lose the ball on the attack, the closets player to the ball presses, remaining team recovers behind our line of confrontation.

Max 8-10 yards apart from each other.