Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Transition - Defensive principles

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Jason Brindley

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Jason Brindley
Name: Jason Brindley
City: Oswestry
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Arrival Activity

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Arrival Activity
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Arrival Activity (20 mins)

Focus + Session design

  • King of the castle (x4)
  • 10x10 yard area
  • Defending player to screen pass into cone, to look to win the ball if recognise a trigger and score in mini goal
  • Defending player not allowed in shaded area
  • Time limit, defender with best time wins. 
  • If defender scores trough gate, add 10 sec to overall time (Progression)

Coaching detail

  • Quickly move feet, be low, agile
  • Recognise triggers to engage

Progressions/Regressions

  • As mentioned above

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 3v3(+3)

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 3v3(+3)
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3v3(+3) (20 mins)

Focus + Session design

  • 3v3(+3) (x2)
  • Looking to win the ball, transfer over 
  • 20x40 yard practice 
  • 2min games

Coaching detail

  • Can we play the furthest pass on transition
  • Forward runs, join in

Progressions/Regressions

  • Goals scored off set are worth double
  • If you score in one goal, attack far goal

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Diamond Press

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Diamond Press (20 mins)

Coaching detail

References:

9s - narrow off (inline with 6 yard area) - prevent central passes - bait passes into CBs.

Wingers - get inside line of 18yard, judge distances between ball and opposition fullback, keep him in front of you.

1 x CM - act as a 10, go in all the way with their CDM, prevent him getting on the ball.

1 x CM - our base CM stays in front of our CBs, Creating the overload centrally.

If ball travels to one CB - 9 Sprints out to apply pressure, cutting off central pass, curve run.

Opposite 9 drops in to keep central areas overloaded.

Tempt pass into nearside opposition fullback, our winger presses aggressively when ball travels (judging distances) can we win the ball, can we force the mistake, make them play backwards or into danger?

Far side winger narrows off, gets ball side, in with their opposite CM player.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Pressing from recycled possession

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Pressing from recycled possession (20 mins)

Focus + Session design

  • Pressing from recycled possession 

Coaching detail

  • Defend 3 channels, protect the middle, force wide, move across as a team
  • Who deals with the CDM? Far 8 to come inside, far winger to pick up far 8
  • What if? Winger gets beaten by FB? If middle third, 8 to come across, CDM to pick up ball-side 8


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