Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Pass & Press

Progression

The drill starts with a pass in from the coach.  

The player receiving the ball can pass left or right then runs in the opposite direction (left or right) to take up position at the back of the line for that cone, the player standing opposite the player receiving the ball moves to press the player who has received the ball.  Notice how the blue player makes an arcing run to cut off the pass to the red player, this should be seen as a trigger for the waiting red player to start moving towards the grey player to provide the press, as the pass to red has been cut off by the blue player.

Grey receives the pass, red makes a straight pressing run with insufficient acceleration, this means that grey can pass left or right.  As the pass to left or right has not been cut off, neither blue or yellow can anticipate the pass and cannot start the pressing run, this gives blue more time to control the ball and make a pass without being put under any pressure.

After receiving the pass blue controls the ball to the right, red spots this is a trigger to start moving towards grey and accelerates to block the pass back to the next blue player, the waiting blue player sees the passing lane to blue blocked and accelerates to close down yellow, yellow mis-controls the ball and blue is on hand to intercept.