Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Regular Season - Session #2 - Prep for Durham College

Dynamic Warmup (15 mins)

• Light Jog
• Side Shuffle each way
• Side to side accelerations (forward and backwards)
• High knees
• Heels

• High knees
• Straight legs
• Hip rotations in
• Hip rotations out
• Back leg extensions

• Bounding vertically
• Bounding forward 
• Accelerate forward two pylons accelerate back one
• Lateral accelerations in-between red and yellow pylon
• Lateral accelerations around red and yellow pylon

Play Away from Pressure (15 mins)

Organization:

25x25 yard circle. 6 v 6 - 2v2 in the middle of the circle alternate players on the perimeter. Play starts from outside the circle into teammates in circle. Inside players must combine with each other before playing the ball to a perimeter player. Perimeter players can play to another perimeter player. Defending team to regain possession and play to their teammates on outside of circle. 

Key Factors:

Playing away from pressure - first touch must be into space away from traffic.

Looking to distribute the ball away from inside players to give outside players time to react and find another player. 

Mobility and creation of space

Changing types of runs

FIRST TOUCH INTO SPACE

Progressions:

 Outside players can enter into the middle and interchange with middle players

Limit touches

Final Game (35 mins)

Organization:

 Full Field. FIFA Rules APPLY. Both teams are playing in a 1-4-2-3-1 formation. 

Objectives:

 Playball wide to get players out of position and commit to pressure. Createoverloads on flank, play into box to score

Coaching Points:

Be patient with possession. Keeping goodshape ( DF-MF, MF-AT). Try to draw players out of position and Identify when isthe best opportunity to exploit an overload on flank. Look to penetrate deep into flanksof Zones 3 and 4.