Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Team training, invite pressure to progress

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Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions):

10v9 Team training session,

Red teams aim is to dribble or pass inside the end zone through one of the three gates,

Blue teams aim is to win the ball back and find one of the four mini goals, or dribble the ball over their end line(halfway line)

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

2x6 minute blocks,

50x45m

Coaching points;

Invite pressure to progress,

Don't get trapped on the sideline,

Immediate counter pressure on the loss of the ball, defend the attacking dome

Problems and solutions;

Struggle to build up and play through the middle of the pitch?

Bring a 9 down the pitch in order to give an extra body in the middle, this means that we can pin their defensive line with 3 instead of 4. Still game realistic as not many teams will jump a cb into the middle of the pitch, so it's something that we can do on a gameday, whilst not losing the realism of the session.

CB jumps into the middle when we drop a player down?

This leaves us still man for man at the back, use it and play direct in to it, then use third man/up back through concepts to progress through the gates.

Can't progress from the back through the pitch?

Dribble! Encourage your cb to dribble and commit pressure, we are always +1 so this means that when we attract pressure we should be able to find the free man.

Conceding goals on transition?

If counter press fails and we get beat, foul! Or protect wide areas and funnel the play centrally where we have more numbers.