Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): GO7 Winter Attacking Organization Creating and Finishing

Opposites reaction game (10 MINS) (5 mins)

Set up: any number of players, equal number of different colour cones.

Method: this is a fun competitive drill to test players reactions.

Players stand in a straight line between the red and blue cones and face the coach.

The coach call out various commands such as up, down, left, right, turn, red,blue and players have to react.

The last player to react loses a life you decide how many lifes.

To progress: Ask them to do the opposite to what you say. so if you call red they have to go blue.

Passing and receiving with forward moves (15 mins)

Organization - 1 passes with appropriate weight and accurcy - visual cue of receiving in open body shape, so passes to back foot

- 2 checks off start point at appropriate time to create seperation and receives using back foot in open body shape

- 2 passes to 3 who receives with positive 1st touch that drives into space towards DEF. At appropriate distance executes forward move to beat and exploit space behind then plays a give and go with the player at cone 1, giving a leading pass for that player to shoot.

-The player who shoots retrives the ball and joins line 4. The drive forward and preform a forward move and pass to number 5 then the pattern starts again.

Coaching Points

1.Exploit space, get 1st touch out of body, into space to make up ground

2.Assess the defenders position, angle and distance of approach

3.Keep ball close to body as you approach the defender

4.Use maneuver to beat the defender – use your body or the ball

Attacking Organization /Creating and Finishing (20 mins)

Objective

Create Finishing Chances and Scoring

Organization

Set up as in digram, two channels with suppoert players with a 3 v 3 in the middle. Only the player on the team can enter the channels for over lapping runs. Using the support players in the channels the inside players try to combine and create 2 v 1s in order to get into the final third and score.

Coaching Points

Tempo - High

Quality of pass

Position of supporting player

Communication

Simple finish

Interval Duration

Rotate support players every 4 minutes