Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Half Pitch Practice Defending from the front

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Anthony Williams
Name: Anthony Williams
City: Maesteg
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Organisation

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Organisation

1/2 Pitch Practice

Formation will be Red team 4-diamond-2 only using the back 4 and diamond players against White team 4-2-3-1(using 2-3-1) Working with the White team.

Poles 10 yards beyond 18 yard box . For red team to get thier starting distances correct.

Duration 7 minutes work/3.5 minutes rest x 3 sets

Total 32 minutes

Coaching Points are as follows on next few screens.

Rules. Reds are trying to play out and then score in the big goal 18 yards inside the other half. Whites are stopping them play out and once they win ball then have 15 seconds to finish with an end product.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Striker and wide player

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Striker and wide player (15 mins)

GK rolls ball to either Centre back who advances with the ball as he gets near the poled line the striker will close him down showing him outside .

2. Wide player will stay narrow not letting ball into midfielder. As shown in shaded area above. As ball is transfered to the Right Back the wide player will close down and over exaggerate the play down the line not letting him come back inside


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): No. 10 and the other midfieders

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No. 10 and the other midfieders (15 mins)

1. Number 10 drops onto deepest midfielder not allowing the switch of play.

2.Left midfielder will move across to threaten pass into nidfielder.

3. Right sided midfielder drops onto top of the diamond player.

4. Right of 3 drops into positon effecting the left of red diamond shape .

Weakness.

Any switched ball will cause problems as we have all shuffled over as a team to condense the area and keep them down one side.

Team Shape.

As shown above the shape is an L shape as shown on the red line above.

This principle is the same for both sides of the pitch.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Reflection

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Reflection

Reflection.

Players used Penybont youth team

DESCRIPTION.. What happend.....

Using 14 players and 2 goalkeepers

Session worked well, the players involved picked up the principles very quickly.

After showing demonstrations and using a question and answer approach the team did take the patterns and principles on board and the objectives were achieved very quickly.

Feelings....

Before.. Players arent always as enthusiastic working on defensive principles

During... Midfielders were very organised in thier roles allowing me to help number 10 more. He struggled to begin with, but found his way in the end. It was clear that they had took everything on board that I had asked of them. Organisation and communication improved massively through out the session

After..Players realised that communication was keep in being successful.

EVALUATION.

Good. Players understanding and their movement to effect the pass. Striker and Number 10 recognised that by keeping play down one side made other defenders jobs easier

Bad. It took a lot of time to get number 10 to fully understand his role

Analysis... How I influenced session....

Observing palyers and thier movement. Diagonsing defensive movements in the function and reinforcing them in the phase.

Vocally giving instruction and just the odd reminders.

Conclusion...

Session went well.

Action Plan..

Its a seesion that isnt the most stimulating for most of the players, but the fact they had a goal to score in helped. Next session I will try to let them figure out the solutions themselves, before stepping in.

Limitations..

Not every player had the full concentration


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