Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Advanced National. 8. Session Planning. Full Session. Attacking through the center.

Screen 1

Rondo style. 

4v1. 

4 cones. 1 small goal per grid. 

Blue team to find its target. Movement with and without the ball. Find a direct pass to you target. (Highest player on the field). 

Defending player, white, can score in the goal upon recovering the goal. 

Blue team (but target) allow in to pressure upon losing the ball. 

Likely errors: 

1- Too many passes within the back 3 player without finding the target.  

2- Lack of movement off the ball. 

Please focus on center frid for animation. 

Screen 3

8v6. Adding space and Pressure but keeping same principles as previous excercice.  

Players in the attacking half can not turn with the ball, forcing teammates to get open and provide a passing option. 

#2, #3, #6 are allowed on each half when #4 and #5 are limited to their defending half and #8 and #10 are limited to their attacking half. 

White are not coaches and allowed everywhere on the field.

Coaching points:

1- #2, #3, #8 and #10 make the field as big as possible on the width, stretching the opponent defensive lines and allowing us to find the pocket in the middle of the field. 

#6, #8 & #10 are rather free to switch position and responsabilites as long as our principles and ideas are in place. 

Likely errors:

1- Playing too slow out of the back. 

2- Lack of movement in the middle between #6, #8 and #10. 

I actually run this session often, but in our club environment, we rarely have more than a quarter of a field per teams of 20 players..