Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Breaking lines Playing through, round or over. (Specific principle/Team training) 16.08.2021

Technical practice #2 (15 mins)

• Key Factors

  • Unopposed technical practice
  • Player encouraged to use 2 touches
  • Body shape, side on to see 3 corners of the area.
  • Detail on pass: ball speed, direction, weight and smoothness.
  • Receiving skills: body shape, angle to receive, movement away from the cone, have a picture.
  • Good first touch, where?

  Organisation

  • 16 players
  • 30 x 30 yard square
  • Players to follow their pass.
  • 2 balls working at once, increase the balls if/when the players become competent.
  • 2 x 2 minutes, with 1 minute rest. (6 minutes)
  Interventions
  • Concurrent feedback
  • Terminal feedback
  • Question and answer
  • Coaching process (if required, must dip in and out)
  

Team training (25 mins)

Key Factors

• Maintain width and depth in possession of the ball.
• Play through, round or over.
• Occupy all 3 zones of the area in possesison.
• Move the ball quickly with purpose, limited touches.

Organisation

• 4 x 5 minutes 2 minutes rest
• full half a pitch with 10 yards into opposition half
• CR to coach reds and manage the yellow team.
• Red's set up in a 1-4-3 (1-4-3-3)
• Yellow's set up in a: 2-4-2 (1-4-4-2)
• Yellow's will be managed on 8 seconds to score when in possession of the ball.

Block 1: Free play, CDM to make a 4v2 with GK when playing out.

Block 2: Yellow CF's to drop on to CDM

Block 3/4: Yellow's to drop into a mid block.

If a team goes man to man?
• Red team to utilise goal keeper when playing out from the back to create an overload.
• Midfield 3 to rotate and open space up to play forward and break a line. 
If a team drops into a mid block.
• Red team to occupy all three zones, front 3 to create width, CB's to create depth, move the ball quick and break lines with penetrating passes.