Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): FAW B Licence - Breaking Lines - Specific Practice

Specific Practice15 mins

Welsh Way Principles - Playing through/around/over

- Understand when and how to play through, around or over the opposition depending on the type of pressure applied

Organisation/Area Size:

- Area split into 4 zones (size as shown)

- 6 vs 6 SSG

- Players locked in their respective zones (2 v 2 in central zones / 1 v 1 plus GK in end zones)

- Play 4 x 3min periods with 2min break in between

Explanation:

- The aim for both teams is to transfer possession through the zones to create scoring chances. This encourages clever movement to create space without being able to leave a zone, and to create opportunities to pass forwards and break lines. 

How:

- Coach is to work with both teams, depending on who is in possession. When ball goes dead, play is to resume from the GK.

Conditions/Challenges/Targets:

- Players are locked in their respective zones (position specific i.e midfielders in central zones, strikers in end zones etc)

-1 point for each goal scored

- Passes can be made that bypass a zone (i.e from 1st zone to 3rd zone)

- Progression - players can rotate positions but must maintain the 1v1 and 2v2 in each zone

- Progression - player can move up one zone when in possession in order to create an overload (3v2 or 2v1)

Key Points:

In possession:

- Try to play through, around or over opposition

- Make pitch big (width and depth)

- Scan the pitch regularly

- Look to play forward

- Move the ball quickly with limited touches

- See three corners of the pitch 

- Fast and late movements to create space

Out of possession:

- Force play wide

- Press aggressively

- Prevent split passes