Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Combination play through Zone 14

Drill (20 mins)

Drill.

Red Formation 1-5-1 (11vs11 = 3-5-1-1).

Mannequin Formation 4-4 (Back 4, Diamond 4) / (11vs11 = 4-4-2).

Set Up & Coaching Points.

- Half Pitch (feeders starts on half way line).

- Flat Markers are used to map out 'Zone 14'.

- Mannequins are positioned in back 4, 2 cm and a 10 with enough room inside zone 14 for a CDM real player.

- Mannequins are placed just outside zone 14.

Coaching points.

- Quality of pass (accurate, enough pace to reach intended target).

- Intensity.

- Type of pass. (driven, side foot, chip pass)

- Movement to receive pass / "in and out" movement / Step one way, then quickly change direction into space.

- Communication.

To Start:

- Blue player cannot intervene with play (act as a mannequin for start).

- Reds get used to making short, sharp passes inside 'Zone 14'.

- Using different combinations such as; 4,6,10,8 through ball to 9 / 4,10,6 out wide to 11 then crossed into box for 9.

- Allow players to create own combinations when Blue player is Inactive.

What to do;

- Feeder starts with the ball everytime.

- 4 drops in to recieve the ball at an angle to play a fast pass.

- 8 & 6 roll outside the Mannequins to creat space for 10.

- 10 using sharp movement to create space for themselves (this would be more diffucult as there is an actual defender not a mannequin, therefore movement would need to be good and intense).

- 4 passes the ball to either 6, 8 or 10, who must be inside the 'zone 14' marked out area.

- Whoever receives the ball off the 4 must play another pass within the marked out area.

- After at leat 2 passes have been made inside of 'Zone 14' can the players try to score.

- Aim to use combinations practiced when drill was unopposed.

Equipment.

- 8 Red Bibs. 1 Blue Bib.

- 7 Mannequins.

- Balls.

- Flat Markers.

- 1 full size goal.