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Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Penetration In Wide Areas To Create Goal Scoring Opportunities

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Edward Cross
Name: Edward Cross
City: Perth
Country: Australia
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Description

SESSION OBJECTIVE:

  • To allow us to work on the penetration in the final third through width
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Warm Up - Passing Practice

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Warm Up - Passing Practice
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Warm Up - Passing Practice (15 mins)

ORGANISATION:

  • 3 separate drills playing simultaneously 
  • 16 players divided 5-6-5

HOW TO PLAY:

  • Players in the middle must combine before playing out to the end player
  • Whoever plays the end man will take his place, and the end man will follow his pass in to area
  • Vary the player that will receive the ball (short/long/between passes)

CHANGE IT / PROGRESSIONS:

  • Once players have the hang of it, can we play 1 touch?

COACHING POINTS:

  • Encourage football movements (underlaps/overlaps/3rd man runs/1-2)
  • Body shape to allow quick play
  • Quick well timed movement after playing the ball
  • Be inventive
  • Mistakes will happens REACT-- ADJUST-- FIGURE IT OUT
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Possession SSG

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Possession SSG
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Possession SSG (20 mins)

ORGANISATION:

  • 5V5 + 1 inside pitch
  • Each team has two external bouncers

HOW TO PLAY:

  • Ball starts from end player who will play into his team
  • They must combine centrally before finding the other end bouncer and then repeating the process
  • If the other teams win possession they must find a start point (one of their bouncers)
  • Yellow player is a floater for both teams

CHANGE IT / PROGRESSIONS:

  • Remove the yellow floater to take away overload

COACHING POINTS:

  • Encourage football movements (underlaps/overlaps/3rd man runs/1-2s)
  • Body shape should allow quick play forward
  • Quick well timed movement after playing the ball
  • Be inventive and recognise space to attack
  • Provide support underneath the ball to allow forward movement
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Game Training

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Game Training
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Game Training (30 mins)

ORGANISATION:

  • 8 (attack) v 7 (def) + 1GK
  • 2-3-3 (attack) v 1-4-2-1 (def)
  • Two wide zones (penetration zones)
  • Attacking team score in large goal
  • Defending team score in two mini goals

HOW TO PLAY:

  • Attacking team always start with ball played in from halfway line by Assistant
  • Team attacking the goal must break into either shaded zones before scoring
  • No other restrictions on the game
  • If defending team win ball, 10 seconds to score in mini goals

CHANGE IT / PROGRESSIONS:

  • Limit the Red 2&3 to just two touch

COACHING POINTS:

  • Recognise overloads
  • Use the footballing movements practised in earlier segments of the session
  • Change the point of attack quickly to exploit weak side 
  • Move the ball quickly
  • Find half spaces 
  • Always provide width
  • Runners beyond and movements between the lines are key to pulling the opposition apart
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 8v8 MSG

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 8v8 MSG
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8v8 MSG (20 mins)

ORGANISATION:

  • 8v8 MSG
  • Half field and 50y width
  • 1-2-4-1 formations for both teams

HOW TO PLAY

  • Free play game
  • No conditions

CHANGE IT / PROGRESSIONS:

  • Limit touch to encourage quicker interplay
  • Change to 1-2-3-2 to encourage more vertical penetration & 3rd man runs

COACHING POINTS:

  • Look to go forward when possible
  • Use width/support
  • Body shape should allow forward passes and movement
  • Change the tempo
  • Recognise space
  • Pass and move

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