Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Transition: Exploiting Space in Opposition Half - Counter Attack

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Description: To develop fast transitions from defence to attack and attacking space in the oppositions half

Set up:

Practice:

Play starts in 1 grid (blue team in diagram) in possession
Objective is to complete 6 passes or keep the ball for 30 secs = 1 point
They can use the neutral players in he same grid
Yellow team look to win the ball and quickly switch the play to the opposite grid's neutral players = 1 point
Yellows must then move across to the other grid to maintain possession
Now the blues try to win the ball back and switch the play....

Rules: Players have unlimited touches, neutral players 2 touch max, all players in possession need to transfer to new grid with 5 seconds

Coaching Points:

Defenders - try to reduce the space and apply as much collective pressure as possible to win the ball back
Awareness of recognising when to press, where to play forward - percentage pass of player getting there to support
Quick decision making
High tempo
Fast support play
Movement

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Progression: Looking at how we can exploit the space in a live game

Practice:

Starts with yellow 4 in he centre circle
All players start in the yellow attacking half (apart from x2 yellow CB's and x1 Blue CF)
The 2 blue wingers stay high and wide (on the half way line)
Yellows try and penetrate the blue's defence and score.
Blue team win the ball and then play out wide through the grey dotted line.
if the Blues score within 15 seconds of winning he ball, the goal counts as double

Rules:

2 blue wingers and no.10 (if playing 11v1) are the only players allowed to join the counter attack (create a 4v3)
No.4 is the only yellow allowed to recover defensively
Change team roles after 15 mins