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Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Beating the Press 1 (Defense Focused)

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Sam Karacochi
Name: Sam Karacochi
City: Worthing
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Objective

The aim of the session is to prepare players around playing principles of defending and pressing as a team based on triggers, positioning and distances while understanding individual roles and the importance of executing the process together. The session will focus on the players' specific positioning and triggers to engage and defend the space or player.

Focus Areas

  • Defensive positioning
  • Triggers to counter-press and defend the space
  • Passing an Moving 

Interventions

Walkthroughs - Delve into good detail with a visual representation and engagement from players.

Terminal Feedback - Initiate the practice to give players individual roles and detail the rotations and setups.

Coaching process - To effectively build and reinforce the playing principles and ensure the quality of decisions is challenged and facilitated.

Session setup

  • Warm-up
  • Rondos                
  • Beating the press     
  • SSG  

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Rondo

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Rondo

Key Points 

  • Set-up is in 2x 20x20 boxes 
  • 4 attackers on the outside, 3 defenders in the middle
  • The attackers are to move around the outside of the box but not to enter and play the ball through the box. If they can split 2 defenders with a pass they will score a point 
  • The defenders are to move around the inside of the box but can not leave their objective is to cut out an attackers pass if they do they will receive a point 
  • Team with the most points wins 

Blocks 

  • 2 x 5min blocks with a 1min brake between 

Coaching points 

Attackers 

  • Movement off the ball is key always look for clear line of sight between yourself and the player with the ball 
  • When you remain stationary you are easy to defend against, your movement is key and will drag the defenders around and will create the gaps you need to play the through ball and score a point

Defenders 

  • Work as a team on goes two stay. The one to go should always be the closest 
  • The 2 that stay its about your awareness of the danger behind you so scanning is required 
  • You positioning is key and so is your body shape. As there is an overload of attackers you can just defend against on other attacker. Can you position yourself to be able to defend against two players that's the key  
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Beating the press

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Beating the press

Key Points 

  • 8v7 set up times up and down to the number of players you have 
  • Ball starts with the defending team keeper always
  • The idea is for the defending team to keep the ball and put together 10 passes before you are able to shoot 
  • There will be session that focus on beating the press and pressing the ball 
  • The red team are always the defending team and the blues attacking team 
  • If the attacking team win the ball they need to attempted to score there is no restrictions on their passing just win the ball and score 

Blocks 

  • 3 x 10 min with a 1 min break between 

Coaching Points 

  • Beating the press focused 
  • GK decision making they will have a least 7 options to re start the game 
  • Movement of the defensive players is key to beating the press, look for small runs into space to receive the ball 
  • In order to beat the press players without the ball need to work hard there should always be at least 2 passes on for the player with the ball creating triangles and Dimond shapes on the pitch 
  • Passing needs to be excecated well and to the players feet 
  • One and two touch passing where possible 
  • CB need to move out and up with the play or else they risk playing teams onside if they lose the ball 
  • There needs to be a good shape from the defense in order to execute this properly 
  • If they maintain their shape properly then if they lose the ball they are in a better position to win it back 
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG

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SSG

Key Points 

  • 8v7 SSG

Blocks 

  • 10min each way 

Coaching points 

  • Continue the with the same as was used in the last session and see how they react in a SSG stop the game and coach where necessary 

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