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Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Break the Press

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Darren Kalthoff
Name: Darren Kalthoff
City: Grain Valley
Country: United States of America
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Sport: Football/Soccer
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Break the press: Cadence of up, over, diagonal, through.

A well practiced pattern of play and passing pattern to draw defenders in to a press, then break their lines with a quick passing pattern with the purpose of moving the ball forward. This works on goal kicks and any time we trail or recycle the ball. Look at the diagram, this is one way you can run this pattern of play. 

Striker breaks into the mid field, the RCB passes them the ball, the midfielders (green) read the defenders position and the strikers body posture. For the purpose of the drill we will say the opponents CB followed the striker and is marking them tight.  Since the striker is on the right side of the midfield the right attacking mid and the holding mid will move to support. The HM drops with the strikers movement. The striker sets the ball to the HM. The striker and right attacking mid switch positions. 

When the fullback sees the HM move and the set pass from the striker, that is their trigger to move forward. 

The HM passes the ball wide into space for the full back to run in on. The fullback sends a through ball in for the LW to cross into the box. 

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