Futsal Session (Senior): St. Mary's University Women's Futsal: Defending 'Fly-Keeper' (Start Time: 2023-01-20 21:00:00)

Screen 1 (20 mins)

Team playing 'Fly-Keeper' generally have 2 formations.

3-2 (or as it's called 'HOUSE') or

2-1-2 (or 'DICE')

As you can see in this diagram the outside of the attacking team with their 3-2 formation looks like a house!

Screen 3

In this HOUSE (3-2) set up, the idea is to make the play across the court and down the side and stopping any diagonal passes to the second post. REMEMBER, THEIR GOAL IS NOW UNPROTECTED. The GK can have as many touches and have the ball as long as she wants while she remains in the attacking half.

Currently, the ball is in the middle, so the defending team (stripes) are set up as a diamond with the front player (pivot) about 10/12 metres from the goal line. No higher because it will allow the attacking team to exploit the space behind the pivot. The wings are narrow. with the fix at the back and the GK ready.

Screen 5

The ball has now been passed to the player in the corner and player 2 goes to close down.

Player 1 drops in to offer support.

Player 3 drops to the edge of the penalty area to close down the space.

Player 4 is looking to stop the post to the far post.

The GK is now set on the near post

Screen 7

This time, the GK switches the play by passing to the opposite side of the court.

As soon as this happens. WE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE BALL ARRIVES AT THE FEET OF THE RECEIVING PLAYER.

It will be Player 3 who will go to cover that player.

Player 4 will switch to cover the player on the bottom left hand court.

Player 2 now becomes the back player blocking the diagonal pass to the player in the bottom right hand corner of the court.

The GK also switches side.

This continues until they make a bad pass and we intercept with the aim of shooting at the goal ASAP or if they shoot and our GK catches it they can then shoot into the open net.