Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Transitioning with Intensity 4v4+3 (Start Time: 2018-02-06 19:45:00)

Pre-Gane Warm-up (25 mins)

Objective:

1. Develop possession skills.

2. Develop transition.

3. Develop awareness & Intensity

Organization: 30x20yds (15min) 11 Players (4v4+3)

Instructions:

• 3 Neutral Players (Pink) play down the spine of the exercise (2 on the end lines and 1 central).

Team rotate roles depending on who has possession. Green Team starts by defending, the

Team in black attacks and assuming the positions on the edge of the

playing area. On a loss of possession the two teams switch roles and positioning.

• Defending team plays only in the central playing area.

• 2 pink players play on each end line and one in the middle.

• Play for 6 mins and then break for a 1 minute rest period.

• The 3 Neutral players (6/8/12) act as a CB, CM and CF.

When developing these positions you could select positions for the exercise

based on your teams positions.

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• Possession passing targets can be set (10 consecutive passes).

• Completing 3 switches of play in succession (i.e. from one target player to the target player at the opposite end)

Progressions

• Addition of a 5th player to each team. These players remain in the central playing area at all times.

• Possession must go through all Neutral Players to gain a point.

• Decrease the size of the playing area to make more challenging.

• Touch limitations to 1/2 touch for either the central player only, or all players.

Variations

• Vary the size of the playing area to increase or decrease the difficulty level.

Notes & Observations:

• Attempt to get a really quick tempo to this exercise and focus on limited

touches and simple quick passing. Transition should be very quick in

order to be able to create a numbers up scenario in order to maintain

possession easier.