Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Wing Play

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Name:
Sam Karacochi
City:
Worthing
Country:
United Kingdom
Membership:
Adult Member
Sport:
Football/Soccer
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Description

Objectives

In possession:

  • Exploit the numerical advantage
  • Make the pitch big - Width and Depth in Attack
  • Fast Passes and forward movement to create 2 v 1 or 3 v 2
  • Overlap/Underlap
  • Weight& accuracy of Final Pass - Can the player finishing shoot 1st time?

Focus Area 
  • Winger's positioning, decision making and quality of crossing 

Interventions 
  • Walk throughs: Delve into good detail with visual representation 
  • 121s : Work with the wingers encourage good decision making and work on timing of runs 
  • Coaches feedback: continue to reinforce the understanding of good team movement in the transitions and good decision making in the final third 

Session Set up
  • Warm-up
  • Specific wide play 
  • SSG 

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Specific

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Specific (30 mins)

30 minutes

Key Factors

  • Understand when and how to combine, create and attack final third
  • Half pitch practice tapered off at top end
  • 8 plus GK BLUE in possession
  • 6 plus GK RED out of possession
  • Attacking wide areas split into three boxes. Visualization to help attacking players.

Explanation

  • In possession- BLUE team will start with the ball on each restart. Looking to score in the big goal with highlighting the importance of attacking through wide areas.
  • Out of possession- RED team will look to score in the goal on halfway line upon winning possession. They are only a maximum of 10 seconds to score, looking for them to attack quickly.
  • Extra goal for scoring in wide channel
  • The colored areas in wide channels will help players understand how the scenario changes the type of cross needed.
  • BLUE area- Chip back post, bent cross, early cross. Decision on type of cross dependingon players positioning off the ball.
  • RED area - Pull back, low driven.

Progressions/Challenges

  • Progression on how to utilize 2v1 more effectively in wide areas
  • Types of runs and finishes in box
  • Adding goals for correct type of cross
  • Unopposed in wide channel boxes if success rate needs to be improved.  

 

Coaching Points

  • Be brave with the overload / numerical advantage and encourage the players to be creative in how the manipulate the defensive players.
  • Finishing-type of finish
  • encourage players to keep the pitch as wide as possible 

Coaches position 

  • Central 
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG

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SSG (20 mins)

Small Sided Game - Final Third


  • Understand when and how to combine, create and finish when attacking the final third.

Area Size

  • 60 x 45m pitch 
  • 8v8 

Conditions, Challenges and Targets

  •  Utilize wide channels and limit to a 2v1 for BLUE team in possession if needed
  •  Extra goals if scored from wide channel cross which was practiced in specific drill

Coaching Points

  • Be brave with the overload / numerical advantage in the wide areas and encourage the players to be creative in how the manipulate the defensive players.
  • Use the wide spaces as much as possible 
  • good decision making on when to cross the ball in 
  • different types of crosses including a low angled pass between the defenders 

 


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