Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): BPO - BP in Back Third

Passing Practice (20 mins)

Rules: 

• Ball starts the yellow player as shown. 
• Ball gets played to the blue team who circulate it before playing it into the opposite yellow player and finishing. Every player must touch the ball. 
• The ball then goes back the other way with the red team who do the same. 
• the defensive team looks to stay in a block

Progression: 

 1. Defenders put a bit more pressure on the ball. Not every player needs to touch the ball 

 2. Players must finish from someone other than the player who played it into the bouncer. 

3. No tackling, but full pressure, if you score you get to keep the ball.  

Game Training (20 mins)

Rules: 

Blue Team: 1 point for a normal goal, 3 points for scoring from a wide area. 

Red Team: 1 point for playing into the central player. 1 point for scoring in the wide space. For a goal to count, at least one fullback must be beyond the line as shown. 

Team Task/Challenge:Whenwe win the ball, can we identify when to play forward, and when to recycle possession.  

Player Tasks/Challenges:

#7 & #11 - When we win the ball, canyou explode out of your defensive shape and make quick forward movements to themost dangerous space

#6 & #8 - Once you win the ball, canyou identify whether to play forward quickly, to recycle possession. 

#2 & #5 - Once you've won the ball back, can you look to secure possession and once it is secured, get wide as quickly as possible. 

#3 & #4 -  When we win the ball, can you first look to support keeping possession in a defensively secure position, and if its secure, look to play forward in wide spaces.