Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Pressing principles (Start Time: 2023-02-22 15:30:00)
Stoke City F.C.
Jason Brindley
Description
Timings
3:15-3:30pm - Warm-up
3:30-3:40pm - Rondo Wars
3:45-4:05pm - Tech Practice
4:10-4:30pm - Pressing practice
4:35-5pm - Rondo based SSG
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15 mins
Focus + Session design
- Defending 1v1
- Defender to pass ball into attacker, replicating turn-over, 1v1
- Attacker to look to dribble through ball side gate - 1 point, middle - 3 points, far gate - 5 points
- 12x15 yard area
- Rotate roles each go
- 2min games - 30sec rest (x3)
Coaching detail
- Reaction straight away on turnover
- Apply immediate pressure to the ball, get the ball possessors head down
- Don't over commit with the press, put the breaks on, get low
- Make contact, use your body to win possession
Progressions/Regressions
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Focus + Session design
- Defending 2v2
- Red defender to start practice, pass ball into green attacker to represent turnover
- Greens to look to score in mini goals which represent playing into the middle of the pitch beating the press
- Greens can dribble through the wide gate for 1 point to represent the wide channel
- Defenders to win possession and play into top 2 mini goals to represent forward attacking passes
- 20x15 yard area
- 2 x 4min games - rotate roles
Coaching detail
- Reaction straight away on turnover
- Apply immediate pressure to the ball, get the ball possessors head down
- Go as a pair, work together. Where's the next pass, can we effect it?
- Make contact
Progressions/Regressions
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15 mins
Focus + Session design
- Possession practice with an emphasis on pressing and reactive pressure on transition
- 7v7(+2)
- 40 x 26 yard pitch with 8 mini goals positioned as seen in image - 8 yards off the pitch area
- Possession team to make 10 passes before being able to score
- Defending team to hunt the ball collectively and if they regain can score straight away
- 2.5 min games - 30 sec rest - high intensity
- First set of games, 1 team set as possession and 1 as hunters
Coaching detail
- In possession stretch the pitch, be patient, hold and appreciate the space
- Look to draw opposition in whilst maintaining ability to play away from pressure, through a longer pass or combinations
- Awareness is key
- On turn-over, immediate pressure to the ball to close the net and suffocate the space around the ball
- Out of possession, move together, engage the ball carrier and make contact. Get his head down.
- Secondary defenders predict and effect the next pass.
- Hunt the ball, have desire to win it. Put the work in.
- On turnover, can we exploit the oppositions open shape quickly to score in a mini goal and play away from pressure
Progressions/Regressions
- Progression 1 - Hunting team must find a neutral player with a pass on regain before scoring
- Progression 2 - If you regain, you become possession team and have to make 8 passes to score. This focuses on team going form out to in and opening and stretching the pitch
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20 mins
Rondo Type Practice (20 mins)
Focus + Session design
- Reactive pressure Rondo based game
- 8v8 (+GKs)
- 50 x 55-yard area (5-yard middle zone where mannequins are)
- General principle-based practice
- Chasing/hunting team can send 4 players to engage the ball
- Set amount of passes equals a point
Coaching detail
- Immediate reaction
- Hunt together, cut off the spaces and prevent switches of play
- Recognition of cues and triggers
- Aggressive mentality
Progressions/Regressions
- If hunters regain possession, can they transfer back to their grid via the mannequin gates
- If possession team make set amount of passes, they can attack their own goal - Reaction then of chasers to protect/hide the goal
- If hunters win the ball in opposition half, they can score
- If possession team make set amount of passes, they can attack the far goal. The three hunters are out though.
Progressions/Regressions
- If defenders getting too much success, drop to 3 players hunting
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