Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): U12's 1v1 Defensive Recovery Session (Start Time: 2019-12-10 18:55:00)

1v1 Gates (10 mins)

1V1 Gates

Blue player passes the ball into the yellow player and the yllow player comes into the blue box and must beat the blue player and exit the box through one of the two gates and try and score in the mini goals. Players then switch roles.

Progression

The size of the gates can be moved to get success or to increase diffculty, make one gate smaller than the other but increase the points if they score going through the smaller gate to give the players a challenge.

Coaching Points

Attacker

Can they spot the space and beat the defender, decision making when to attack the smaller gate.

Defender

Can the defender close the space off quickly and ensure there body position is correct (Low Side On)

if the attcker gets through the gate can theu force them winde away from the mini goal.

Playing Through The Thirds Match (30 mins)

Playing Through The Thirds Match

Split the pitch into thirds, play 2v2 in the midfield area and 2 defenders vs 1 attacker, This is to creat more 1v1 scinarios.

Progression

When the atacking team have the ball allow 1 player from each zone into another zone to create overloads, so the midfield becomes 3v2 and the attck becomes a 2v2, Remove restrictions until it becomes a normal game.

Coaching Points

Encourage players to pass into the other zone and then follow their pass or fill in for another player whos vacted the zone. Try to encourage them to play forward when possible change rules if your not getting what you want.