Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Counter Attacking Quickly (overloads)

2 v 1

Organization:

Set up as shown. Numbers of players between 10-16. Lots of balls.

Instructions:

Red team play 4 v 2 (or 5 v 2) aganist blue team in square A. If they make 5 passes they pass or dribble out of square and find their forward player. This makes a 2v1 situation.

Once this move ends then the ball is served by the Coach to square B and blue team play aganist red.

If defender wins the ball once player exits the square then the play stops.

Coaching Points:

Speed of play, quality of pass, ability to pentrate with pass, awareness of forward on the 5th pass, movement off the ball and end product.

Progressions:

See next screen

3 v 2

Organization:

Same set up as previous two screens but put an additional player in the central midfield area.

Instructions:

On the 5th pass the ball must be played to the central midfield player for that team. A red player from square B releases himself and the central midfield player plays a diagonal pass into the path of that player. The player that played the pass from square A also joins in the attack to make a 3 v 1 situation. A defender from any square can also recover to defend.

Coaching Points:

Same points as previous two screens but communication is very important for the defending team.

Progressions:

Time limit on play of 10 seconds to score.