Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Creating and Exploiting Overloads: Uefa B License

General Practice

Organisation:

1/2 Pitch

Balls, cones/discs, 8 red bibs, 8 blue bibs.

16 players

7 Red + GK (Managed)

8 Blue (Coached)

How to run

Blue(Attackers) will always start with the ball on the halfway line. The objective is to create and exploit overloads in key areas leading to succesion in scoring a goal. Red (Defenders) are actively trying to stop the blues from scoring a goal and trying to score themselves quickly after winning the ball back.

Key Points:

Ball speed

Player movement to create overloads

Find the spare player

Commit the opponent

Coaching Points:

Create 2v1, 3v2 situations centrally and out wide

Lose your marker to create pockets to receive the ball

Draw your defenders in then exploit the space

Quality of pass

Timings

4x4 minute blocks

30 seconds to 1 minute rest.

Challenges/Conditions/Targets

If a cross is scored from an overlap +2 goals

The Red team have 10 seconds to score a goal

Problem/Solution 2 (10 mins)

Problem/Solution 2

High press

Red team starts in line with the poles and engage in a high press trying to win the ball quickly and effectively higher up the pitch.

Solution

Wingers to create height and width to drag out fullbacks

CMs to drop deeper to create overloads with CBs

Key one-two touch passing to break the press. 

Movement from spare CB to create a 3v2.

Play directly into the 9 to hold up play and allow for CMs to spin and join the attack and create central overloads.

Wingers to makes runs in behind after the ball is played into the 9.

Key Points

CBs must move to create bounce pass opportunities for the under pressure CMs

CMs must spin to aid the attack and create central overloads

Coaching Points

Composure on the ball

Movement off the ball

One-two touch passing 

First touch

What if?

CMs cant lose their marker.

Ball has to be played either out wide or directly to the 9 to create a different picture centrally.

If we play out wide we can go back to the CBs and back into a CM.

Directly going into the 9 skips the press and allows the CMs and other striker to be invloved in the attack and create the same scenario overload as orginally intended.