Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Playing with Width

Screen 2 (10 mins)

For this drill, 2 players will start at the edge of the playing area. From there, players will pass out wide either to left or right. The players out wide will then dribble closer to the edge of the box, they will have two different areas they can dribble into, if they stop in the first area, the coross has to be looping cross into the box. If they choose to dribble to the furthest area, the cross has to be a low driven croos either into the box or s cutback to the edge of the box.The players who have passed the ball out wide will continue their run and then time their run and shoot at goal.

This is to help players focus on how playing out wide can help to create more opportunities which could then help prepare them better for certain games. As it will help to give them more ideas on ways that they can score.

This session can be progressed by the players in the middle shooting having to strike the ball first time instead of taking a touch, this is help teach them that they might not always have the time available to take a touch beofre taking a shot. This will help help to work on the control of the shot when taking a first time touch.

An intervention for this session could be to time the wingers, this is to stop them jogging or going at their own pace. Instead they are given a time limit or a certain amount of touches. This will help to make thus drill more realistic as they will not be able to jog in a match as they could potentially be under pressure from the defender.

After this, defenders can be introduced so that it becomes more realistic. To begin with, one of the pairs will take turns defending, so one player will be defending and the other player will be stood by the goal. These defenders will keep changing who is defending after each go. This can then eventually be progressed into a 2 v 2 or change it into groups of 3 and have 2 v 3.

This drill can be done for 5 - 10 minutes. Mainly so that they learn the basics of playing wide and why it can be so improtant in a match.

Screen 4

In this part of the session, the players will play a normal match. However, if a team scores a goal where the assist comes from a wide position the goal will be worth 2 instead of 1 for a normal goal.

This session can be done to end the training session. This can be done for 15 - 20 minutes as a game for the players to have fun and have a competitive match.