Hockey Session (Under 18s): Goal scoring

Warm up/Skills Focus (10 mins)

Warm Up Space (5 minutes on each)

• Space 1 - Me and my ball time, ball each - working on some core skills (swap balls and connect, 3D on the move, repeat both with pressure from coach)
• Space 2 - Players on the cones are static, everyone else is dynamic. People on the cones swap when passed to by someone in the middle who then rests on a cone. (1 minute each - Flat first, then bobbles, then 100% game pace) 

Meanwhile, keepers get warmped up

Continuous 2v1 Fast (15 mins)

• 2 attackers (orange) try and score. If defender (blue) touches the ball or the ball goes out the attack is over. If the defender wins the ball cleanly, encourage them to outlet to their team.
• Next attack starts with a feed from the defender (who is a player waiting from the orange team - 1 orange defender now joins) They to the blue player who just defended the previous attack. An extra attacker joins from the blue team to make a 2 v1 in the other direction 

Looking for:

• Ability to connect in the circle and avoid contact
• Low body position around the goal and anticipating space to move to to get high quality goal shot opportunity
• Defender - Get body on line to defend both players at once

Progression:

• Remove mini circle - everywhere is the D
• 2v2 - team that scores is out, defending team stays in until they score