Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Four Corners game 5v5 (3v3 in middle)

Screen 1 (20 mins)

Four Corners game

Set Up

- 30 x 20

- 5v5 with a 3v3 in middle

- 4 squares in each corner, 2 of the same colour set diagonally from eachother (directional play)

Game play - (10mins)

- play 3v3 in the middle with with 2 players in the corners

- Goal is scored when player passes into the corner

Realism

- Goals can also be scored by number of passes (5 passes = 1 goal, 10 passes = 2)

Progression - (10mins)

- Goals scored when ball in passed into corner and out to new player in the middle (player that passed into the square becomes the corner player)

Key points

- Emphasis on rotation of positions (recovery in posession)

- changing direction under pressure, decision making of players

- angles of pass and player to create pass options, weight of pass

- Movement off the ball and utilising space to attack the opposite box

- Demand the ball under pressure