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Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Wide play

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Matt Guise
Name: Matt Guise
City: Worcester
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Overlapping wide midfielders

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Overlapping wide midfielders

Working on wide players

Central midfielders feed into wide player for a 1 - 2

Wide midfielder plays long pass to wide forward, who shields ball from defender to play pass back to overlapping wide midfielder.

Then all 3 forwards try to attack the box to score.

Need to shoot within 3 touches and 3 passes

Then run from opposite side

Focus on

passing,

movement

body shape

shielding the ball

movement

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Ball possession using wide players

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Ball possession using wide players

2 zones

3 v 2 in each zone with 4 floaters (yellow) who play for the team in possession

Objective is to maintain possession for as many passes as possible

Each team cannot go from 1 zone to the other until 1 wide player has been involved.

Wide players cannot pass to each other on the same side. Switching play is allowed.

Wide players have to play the ball within 3 seconds back into the zone or switch it.

Focus on

Movement

Body shape

weight of pass

decision making

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Finding space in behind for wide players

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Finding space in behind for wide players

Extend central zone to near the edge of each box (depending on pitch size

Involve keepers

Objective is to now play out from the back to wide free zones, then back into central area, back out wide before playing into second zone.

Once in second zone objective is to play into corner shaded zone for wide player to enter before crossing to finish

All 3 attackers attack the cross from wide player and only one defender.

Progression into normal game still with safe wide zones

Still keeping 3 second rule for wide players.

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