Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): COMPETITIVE SMALL SIDED GAME TO BEAT THE OFFSIDE TRAP AND SCORE (Start Time: 2023-02-16 18:00:00)

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COMPETITIVE SMALL SIDED GAME:

This competitive training session will teach players to beat the offside trap by making defence-splitting runs ontowell played through balls.

WHY USE IT:

This session is all about the timing of runsand through balls to beat the offside trap and get behind the defence. This isone of the biggest strengths of very successful teams by playing this way.

ORGANISATION:

Set up an area of 50x40 yards with two endzones of 10 yards. I used 18 players. You need balls, bibs, cones and goals asshown in the diagram.

1.       Playstarts with the GK to the players in the middle zone.

2.      Only the attacking teamcan go into the end box they are attacking, but they must time their runsbecause that is the offside line.

3.      The end zones are offside for so playmust be through balls to run onto or dribble through defenders and shoot.

KEY COACHING POINTS:

1.      This is a great game fortiming runs and passes into the zone in front of goal.

2.      Counterattacks- if a team wins the ballin the middle zone they should quickly counter attack. So players should battlehard to win the ball and counter attack.

3.      Switching play- after winning the ballswitch play quickly and counterattack to catch the opposition and defence out.

4.      Dribbling- try and dribble the ball fromone end of the middle zone to the end zone and shoot.

5.      Longball- ping the ball to your strikersor for them to run onto and score.