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Football/Soccer Session (Advanced): Beating the press 3 (Attack Focused)

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Sam Karacochi
Name: Sam Karacochi
City: Worthing
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Description

Objective

The aim of the session is to prepare players around playing principles of defending and pressing as a team based on triggers, positioning and distances while understanding individual roles and the importance of executing the process together. The session will focus on the players' specific positioning and triggers to engage and attack the space or player.

Focus Areas

  • Offensive positioning
  • Triggers to counter-press and attack the space
  • Passing an Moving 

Interventions

Walkthroughs - Delve into good detail with a visual representation and engagement from players.

Terminal Feedback - Initiate the practice to give players individual roles and detail the rotations and setups.

Coaching process - To effectively build and reinforce the playing principles and ensure the quality of decisions is challenged and facilitated.

Session setup

  • Warm-up
  • Rondos                
  • Beating the press     
  • SSG  
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Rondo

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Rondo (20 mins)

Key Points 

  • Set-up is in 2x 20x20 boxes 
  • 4 attackers on the outside, 3 defenders in the middle
  • The attackers are to move around the outside of the box but not to enter and play the ball through the box. If they can split 2 defenders with a pass they will score a point 
  • The defenders are to move around the inside of the box but can not leave their objective is to cut out an attackers pass if they do they will receive a point 
  • Team with the most points wins 

 

Blocks 

  • 2 x 5min blocks with a 1min brake between 

 

Coaching points 

Attackers 

  • Movement off the ball is key always look for clear line of sight between yourself and the player with the ball 
  • When you remain stationary you are easy to defend against, your movement is key and will drag the defenders around and will create the gaps you need to play the through ball and score a point

Defenders 

  • Work as a team on goes two stay. The one to go should always be the closest 
  • The 2 that stay its about your awareness of the danger behind you so scanning is required 
  • You positioning is key and so is your body shape. As there is an overload of attackers you can just defend against on other attacker. Can you position yourself to be able to defend against two players that's the key  
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Beating the press

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Beating the press (35 mins)

Key Points 

  • 8v7 set up times up and down to the number of players you have 
  • Ball starts with the defending team keeper always
  • The idea is for the defending team to keep the ball and put together 10 passes before you are able to shoot 
  • There will be session that focus on beating the press and pressing the ball 
  • The red team are always the defending team and the blues attacking team 
  • If the attacking team win the ball they need to attempted to score there is no restrictions on their passing just win the ball and score 

 

 

Blocks 

  • 3 x 10 min with a 1 min break between 

 

Coaching Points

  • Beating the press focused
  • GK decision making they will have a least 7 options to re start the game
  • In order to win back the ball that attackers must press as a pack. Just like in the rondo before the closest player should press the ball and 2 others should position themselves to block the pass out
  • Movement of the offensive players is key to winning back the ball, look for small runs into space
  • In order to win back the ball the players need to work hard off the ball
  • When pressing it key to remember that its not always the player who is attacking the ball is the one who actually isn't meant to win it just blocking the space in front of the defender can be enough to force a mistake that a teammate capitalizes on
  • To achieve this closing down the space quickly and body shape is key try not to dive in and make it easy for the defender to play around you
  • Standing the defender up and forcing a pass backwards or sideways is just as good as winning the ball in a tackle as this raises the chances of a teammate intercepting the pass
  • Having good positional discipline is also key. If all the attackers get sucked towards the ball this will create space behind for the defender to play the ball over the top and then they are on a counter attack
  • You MUST work as a team if one of the links is weak then the defense will counter you in that area this is why is so important to work really hard off the ball
  • If your teammate has gone and attacked the ball you need to scan the area around you. You job is to block off any pass out for the defense anticipate the pass and be ready to pounce and win it back your position it key to making this happen is not about being close to the ball but defending the space the pass could enter  
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG

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SSG (20 mins)

Key Points 

  • 8v7 SSG

 

Blocks 

  • 10min each way 

 

Coaching points 

  • Continue the with the same as was used in the last session and see how they react in a SSG stop the game and coach where necessary 

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