Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Creating/Preventing chances by overloading lanes/ covering lanes (Start Time: 2021-12-02 17:15:00)

What it looks like

 Minimum 12 players needed.

Goal:

To be able to encourage the players to combine and move quickly, isolating defenders and progressing through the lines within 1/2 touches.

SuccessCriteria:

•Can move across the lanes to create space

•Can isolate defenders with movement and pass fwd quickly

Principles: 

• Move off the ball and overload the same lanes/lines
• On Ball: Can you Dribble towards a teammate? When you have the ball, dribble towards a teammate to draw in a defender.
• Off Ball: Can you run towards the teammate in possession? When we are in possession, run either to the same line/lane of the ball carrier.

Positioning Game (5:30-5:45) (15 mins)

Rules:

Divide into 2 teams, 1 defending and 1 attack. 

Eg: White team kick the ball to the blue (behind red line), whites call out a number of either a 2/3/4/5, this is the number of attacking players that participate in the attack, person kicking changes each time.

Team Task:

Can we isolate/draw out a defender in a lane and penetrate their line of pressure?

Can we defend in 2s and cover vulnerable lanes?

Timings

Ensure players are set up in positions prior to start. (Try and create a 10-15 second stoppage)

3x 4minutes with 1 minute rest

Training Game (6:20-6:40) (20 mins)

Rules:

Full width: If less than 14, move goal onto red line (emphasising full width like Wednesday)

Ball can start are either end, encouraging players to move across lanes to overload or cover lanes.

Take out vertical lanes

Team Task:

Canwe isolate/draw out a defender in a lane and penetrate their line of pressure?

Can we defend in 2s and cover vulnerable lanes?

Timings

5x 3 minutes with 1 minute rest.