Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): 3 man midfield rotation

Part - Technical

Set up a goalkeeper and your defensive unit depending how your team sets up. With 3 midfielders and a trapezoid in the middle. set this up twice opposite each other.

both sides work at the same time - Ball starts with the goalkeeper who plays to #3-#5-#2, as it reaches #2 they play to #4 in the gate who passes back to #1. #1 then repeats this and goes the opposite way for #6/#8 to then receive in the gate. Aim is for the midfield 3 to provide width and depth and rotate between the gate as the ball moves between the center defenders.

Progress:

1) once the ball goes to the wide center defender, the ball is played to a player in the middle gate, who then plays another midfielder, who works it back to the goalkeeper to repeat.

2) once the ball is played to the gate, all 3 midfielders must combine and and play long to the opposite defensive line, the 2 groups of midfielders then rotate and start again from the opposite goalkeeper.

Coaching points:

Width and depth

weight/accuracy/projection of pass

angle and body shape

movement - angles as the ball moves between defenders

angles to create a triangle

Support - triangles and diamonds