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Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Pressing U17+

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Christopher Ruiz
Name: Christopher Ruiz
City: Lutz
Country: United States of America
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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OBJECTIVES

• This session is geared toward developing the players’

understanding of some key principles linked to pressing

through:

- Focusing on individual pressing detail

- Establishing unit and team-based pressing principles.

PART 1: TWO-HALF POSSESSION

TRANSFER GAME

• This practice splits a playing area into two halves. In

each half, four attacking players try to outplay two

pressing players, on whom the practice is focused.

There is a strong emphasis on the pressing players

preventing forward passes, stealing possession and

counter-attacking quickly.

• This practice requires nine players.

PART 2: CONDITIONED SMALL-SIDED

GAME (9v9)

• This practice sees two teams of nine adopt different

roles; one focuses on build-up play while the other

works toward objectives linked to aggressive pressing

and counter-attacking. The practice uses pitch reference

points and conditions to guide the players’ behaviour.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 2 half possesion game 6v3 4v2 transfer

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2 half possesion game 6v3 4v2 transfer (20 mins)

FUNCTION

• This practice is split into two distinct halves, with six

players on the in-possession team (Team B) and three

pressing players on the out-of-possession team (Team

A). Four members of Team B are stationed around the

outside of the playing area: one at each end and one on

each side.

• In each half, two defenders (Team A) and four ‘inpossession players’ (Team B) are permitted, including

three players on the outside of the playing area: two

out wide and one deeper, playing on the practice’s endline (an ‘end player’).

• In a 4v2 situation, Team B must attempt to transfer the

ball from one half of the grid to the other. Crucially, the

wide players are unable to play the final pass to the

team-mate in the other half or the opposite ‘end player’.

• When the ball is transferred, the wide-players move

with the ball to play the same role in the other half,

while one defender moves over as well, creating a new

4v2, as shown in diagram one.

• The aim of the game for the pressing players is to steal

possession and run the ball over the end-line in the half

in which the ball is won. Focus is placed on the pressing

pair’s ability to prevent transfers of possession, steal the

ball and counter-attack effectively.

• If the pressing players win possession, the wide players

are permitted to enter the grid in order to try and stop

them reaching the end line.

COACHING DETAIL:

OUT- OF- POSSESSION

PROTECT THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH

• The two pressing players should work on a ‘pivot’ when

trying to prevent the opposition from playing through

them.

• The pressing player on the far side to the ball should be

deeper than the pressing player nearer to the ball, to

make it more difficult for their opponents to split them.

PRESSING TRIGGERS

• The pressing pair should be on the look-out for pressing

triggers provided by the opposition. These include: slow

passes, poor touches, passes in the air and backwards

passes. These are all signals that the pressing pair might

have the opportunity to steal the ball.

‘RUN THROUGH’

• When pressing aggressively the pressing players should

attack the ball at pace and ensure that they ‘run through’,

getting sufficiently close to the carrier of the ball to

make an attempt to steal the ball or to force them to play

backwards.

COACHING DETAIL:

ATTACKING TRANSITION

DIRECT COUNTER-ATTACKS

• When the pressing players win possession, they should

attack the end-line quickly in a direct way. They will be

counter- pressed immediately and therefore the speed

and crispness of their counter attack is crucial.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): conditioned 9v9 game

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conditioned 9v9 game (25 mins)

FUNCTION

• This is a 9v9 small-sided game in which the two teams adopt different roles.

• Team A are playing to ‘press, steal and counter’, while Team B are playing to ‘build

play and slide’ an attacker in.

• Team A are only permitted to defend within the central third of the pitch (between

the dashed lined marked by letters C and D). Between these lines they should be

aggressive in the way they try to steal the ball.

• If Team A win possession, they must break line C by dribbling over it. Only two Team

B players are permitted to defend behind line C and only two Team A players may

enter the end zone; in the final third, a 3v2 situation plays-out

• Team B must complete six passes in the middle zone before trying to break line D

with a pass or dribble; no Team A plauyer is permitted to defend beyond line D.

COACHING DETAIL:

OUT- OF- POSSESSION

AGGRESSIVE MID-BLOCK

• Team A must defend the middle third of the pitch in an

aggressive manner; they should be hunting for pressing

triggers that the opposition show them - poor touches

and poor, backward or aerial passes - and react as soon

as opportunities appear.

PROTECT THE MIDDLE

• As shown in the diagram on the previous page by

the lines linking players, Team A players should work

in pairs; the player furthest from the ball in each pair

should be deeper than the nearest so that they are not

easily split by a pass.

• When play is out on wide, the member of Team A on

the opposite wiong should take up a narrow position in

order to keep the team compact.

LIMIT SPACE BETWEEN UNITS

• Team A should attempt to reduce the space between

their defensive lines by holding as high a back line as

they feel comfortable with.

• The deepest players should recognise that pushing up

increases the pressure on the ball and adjust their backline accordingly.

COACHING DETAIL:

ATTACKING TRANSITION

DIRECT & EFFECTIVE COUNTER-ATTACKS

• At the moment possession is regained, Team A should

seek to break line C as quickly as possible through

quick combination play or individual dribbles.

• On doing so, they should be encouraged to make

use of their overload to create a scoring opportunity.

Encourage them at this point to:

- Make diagonal runs to ‘narrow’ the opposition central

defenders or to try and get on the end of a ball in

behind.

- Find the ‘spare player’.

- Pass in front of the receiving player so as not to kill the

momentum of the attack.

• If the coach feels as though more pressure is required

for the attacking players, a six-second limit can be

introduced in the final third.

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