Football/Soccer Session (Advanced): Out of Possession Session: Reaction to Attacking & Defensive Transition.

Warm Up - React to shape (10 mins)

Fun activity where 10 players occupy 10 of 11 corners. The cones represent spaces within our shape. The idea of the game is one player (Blue) tries to run to the spare cone, the role of the red team is to get closest player to leave their cone and cover the spare cone with the team shuffling and moving to cover closest cones and leaving furthest cone free so its harder for Blue player to run and occpy the spare cone.

12 seconds work of high intensity, change the pressing player.

Pressing Victim (20 mins)

Set up

11v11 - Full width + 18YRD to 18YRD

2 x 10mins

Starting from the middle zone of the pitch. The coach passes a ball into the Blue team to begin the game.

The Red team must select two players in the blue team thatare going to be the “pressing victims”

The red team must do this without telling the blue teamwho they have chosen.

Play a normal 11v11 game using set formations

When the pressing victims receive the ball. This is a triggerfor the red team to press aggressively as a full team unit.

The red team can select pressing victims based on thepositioning on the pitch, on the level of the player and thelevel of goal threat to the red team’s goal.

Rules

When the ball leaves the pitch, the blue teams goalkeeperalways restarts the game.

At half time, the blue team must try to guess which twoplayers where the pressing victims chosen by the red team.

For the second half, the roles are reversed with the redteam now selecting two pressing victims in the red team.