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Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Breaking Lines SSG

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Declan Dawn
Name: Declan Dawn
City: Swansea
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Organisation (Practice Layout & Transition)

  • Use half of a full size pitch. Position a full-size goal at each end of the exercise area. Place a goalkeeper in each goal.

  • Mark out a 17m x 37m area in the centre of the exercise area.

  • Set up a 4v4 plus 1 neutral player – who plays for the in-possession team – inside the central area.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Screen SSG

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Screen SSG (20 mins)

This opposed, small-sided game focuses on a unit’s ability to create goalscoring chances from the middle third and finish on goal. The exercise simulates a scenario in which an attacking team are tasked with breaking a high defensive line by playing in behind to an attacker.

  • The in-possession team aim to keep the ball within the central area until they have the opportunity to play an in-behind pass to an attacker breaking from the central area into the end zone, i.e. the area beyond the central area.

  • The out-of-possession team press and try to regain possession.

  • If the out-of-possession team win the ball back, they become the attacking team and can launch a counter-attack.

  • Once the attacker receives the ball in the end zone, they try to score.

  • The attacker can be joined in the end zone by team-mates and opposition defenders.

  • Each time an attacking move ends (i.e. when a goal is scored or the ball goes out of play), play restarts with the coach playing a ball to either goalkeeper.

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions):

  • The offside rule applies.

In Possession 

  • Play through.
  • Play around.
  • Play over.
Out of Possession

  • Fast pressure on the ball.
  • Protect the middle.
  • Stay narrow and compact.
  • Stop split passes.
  • Protect the space behind.

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

  • Mechanics- Passing 

Interventions based on observations

  • Demonstrate the main actions involved in the exercise and constantly instruct and encourage the players.

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