Football/Soccer Session (Advanced): 8 v 8 Working On Top 6 Attacking Patterns to Goal In Quadrant's 3 amd 4

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OBJECTIVE:

Working on the movement patterns of the 7, 9, 11 in attack and the 6, 8, 10 in support in quadrants 3 and 4.

SET UP:

Full Width x 45 yards in length

GK + 7 Defenders playing to small pug nets

8 Attackers playing to large goal with GK (If GK is not available then to pug nets in the large goal in the corners)

Balls at the coach (in Black) with balls at Center Circle

WHAT IS TO HAPPEN: 

Coach plays the ball into 6 or 8 looking to move the ball from quadrant 3 to the quadrant 4 finding the 7, 9, or 11.

Movement of the 7, 9, 11 to open space and create the attack towards the goal. Pulling defenders away from the area with the ball through their movement

Strikers recognize where the space is, (or is going to be), and use it to their advantage to unsettle the defensive block

COACHING POINTS:

Recognizing space

Movement off the ball 

Movement that is not north-south or east-west

Recognizing How to move off the ball

Recognizing and putting into action Why movement off the ball is important.