Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Breaking The Back Line U23 (Start Time: 2021-09-04 18:00:00)

Arrival Activity (10 mins)

4v2 RONDO

The main focus of the session will be breaking lines. This practice will set the scene, giving players lots of opportunities to penetrate the defensive line in the center of the grid. Each team will work in pairs with the teams in each half combining in possession. The defending pair will have the option to lock onto the line and screen passes to penetrate, or for 1 of them to advance and apply pressure to the players on one side. 

There is no limited passes or minimum pass count and players will earn a point each time they successfully transfer possession into the other half of the grid.

Small Sided Game (15 mins)

4v4+2

Each team plays 3v1 in their own half and has forward locked in against 2 defenders in the attacking half.

Players in their own half can advance to support their forward by either dribbling into the attacking half or playing into the forward and making a forward run. After working the ball into the attacking half the attacking team can also utilise the wide jokers as additional players. The jokers are limited to 2 touches and encouraged to play passes/crosses to assist goals rather than retaining the ball.

PROS (15 mins)

Passing, Receiving & Offering Support

Up, back, through pattern. Working on CB's breaking lines into 9 who pins CB to play first time wall pass and set 10, who releases wide player in behind. Wide player then looks to exploit space with maximum speed and play cross for opposite wide player and 9 to score.

The practice will start alternately from either CB. Front 3 will work in waves, playing in 2 phases then resting.

Main Practice (20 mins)

Function Practice

Front 3 and 10 play against back 4. The back 4 must start as if playing a mid-block and can only recover deeper when their line is broken. The reds act as jokers, starting the practice for the attackers and acting as target players for the defending team if they can recover possession.

Conditioned Game (20 mins)