Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): 2v1 Simplified Game With Corrective Exercises

2v1 With Two Wide Goals (15 mins)

2v1 with Two Wide Goals: Field 12 x 15 yards. Four Players

Rules:

- Two players with a ball situated in the center of the field alternately attack the goals, each defended by one opponent only.

- Objective is for attacker to dribble across the oppsing goal-line despite the opponent's active defence of it

- After 10 attacks or 90 seconds of attacking, both teams switch roles and positions.

- The pair that scores the most goals wins

- Winning Pair play against another winning pair

An attack toward one goal finishes when:

- the defender has touched the ball three times

- one of the attackers has managed to dribble the ball across the goal-line

- one attack infringes the rules

- the ball runs across any end-line

Training Objectives:

- Lift your head while dribbling to be able to analyse the game situations

- Know when to pass and when to dribble;

- Try dribbling past the defender after having carried out a fake pass to the left or right

- Pass the ball on the run toward the right or left

- Wait for the best moment to pass (not too early and not too late) without penetrating in the range of action of the defender

- Communicate with your team before passing

- Pass the ball with speed and accuracy

- Adapt to the behaviour of the team-mate

- Receive the ball from either side while you are on the run

- Execute a tackle

- Select the best moment to tackle and know how to delay it

- Tackle in a side-on position and look out for the 1v1 situation.

- Anticipate the attacker's play, considering both the position of the player without the ball and the dribbling technique of the ball carrier.

Pass ball on the run toward Left or Right (15 mins)

Look Left and Pass Right:

Set-up:

Field 12x15 Yards. 4 players.

- Use cones to mark off four goals as shown in illustration

- Two players from different teams dribble the ball from diagonally opposed positions to the center of the playing area. From there each has to pass the ball on the run toward a team-mate waiting behind the goal on the right side.

- The it's receiver's turn to do the same thing.

- In 10 trials every player should be able to score 8 times.

Progression:

- Switch directions of passing

- Before actually executing the pass through the cone goal, the passer must carry out a feint or a dummy pass to the oher player at the left side.

The Switch (15 mins)

The Switch.

- Player 1 passes it to player 2 who then dribbles diagonally into the position near his or her team-mate. Player 1 overlaps to avoid having two players be in the same position. Player 2 then passes it back to player 1. The ball is then carried across the goal-line to start the same process or combination of moves going in the opposite direction.

Modifying the Rules (15 mins)

Modifying the Rules:

1. Every team performs 10 attacks without time limits.

Training objectives: to understand what to do in attack as well as in defence

2. Two attacker have 90 seconds to attack alternately both goals.

Training objective:

3. The right attacker may execute only one pass to the left or dribble past the defender after a fake pass

Training Objective: to be able to overcome the defender with a single action (a pass or a fake with or without a fake pass)

4. The left attacker may choose between a pass to the right or a fake.

Training Objective: to know the most efficient way to resolve the 2v1 situation.

5. A goal is considered valid only when the last control of the ball was excuted on the run.

Training objective: to receive and control the ball on the run.

6. Every team uses 15 seconds for attacking both goals as often as possible with a recovery of one minute before a new attempt is launched. Every team has four attempts to score a maximum number of goals.

Training objective: to launch quick attacks and commit few mistakes when playing under pressure

7. Both attackers must also use their less-skillful foot

Training objective: to stimulate play with the less-skillfull foot

8. During the development of the attacks, both forwards must switch positions

Training objective: to use the switch systematically

9. Both defenders may tackle in any part of the playing area. The attackers start from the center and may score in either goal area. Attackers and defenders switch functions after 10 attacks

Training objective: to create intentional 2v1 situation

10. Each team attacks and defends two 1 meter-wide cone goals. To score, a player must control the ball inside one of the opponent's two goals, set 12 meters away from each other.

Training objective: to ascertain the width in attack

By asking the attackers to score with a shot into a regular goal after they have learned to control the ball in the widely set goal areas, they will gain additional experience in the conclusion of their attacks.