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Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Specific Practice - IP - Creating and Exploiting Overloads

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Owen Roberts
Name: Owen Roberts
City: Bridgend
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Specific Practice - Creating and Exploiting Overloads

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Specific Practice - Creating and Exploiting Overloads (20 mins)

Organisation


Equipment: 2 large goals, footballs, two sets of bibs, flat markers (used to mark out red lines). Area Size: 45x45, the length is split into 15 yard zones.  

Players: 6 reds and Goalkeeper, 6 blues and Goalkeeper, and 1 neutral player (yellow).

Specific

Lead coach will be working with the blue team who are in possession. 

Assistant coach will work with the red team out of possession. 

The aim of the practice is for the blues to use the common player in yellow to create overloads through the thirds and create scoring opportunities. 

Play will always start with the red team goalkeeper therefore balls should be situated in their goal. Teams get a goal for scoring and if the common player scores for either team its worth 2 goals.

Conditions

  • Both teams must ensure they have 2 players in each zone at all times, players do not have to be restricted to the same zone but each team must have 2 players in each zone at all times, rotation is key to creating space.
  • Common player is not included in the above condition and can move freely across all zones.
  • If blues win the ball back off the reds they have 10 seconds to get a shot at goal.
  • Whenever the ball goes dead we restart from the blues goalkeeper.
Progression

Defending team can now have a maximum of 3 defenders in each zone which then makes it harder for the blues to create an overload. This is to be managed by the assistant coach.


Challenges
  • Always look to create an overload, in all zones not just the final third.
  • Once into the final third we should look to get a shot away at the earliest opportunity, even more important when a 3rd defender is allowed into this zone.
Coaching Points
  • Find the spare player
  • Commit the opposition to allow for space to be created
  • When are we looking to move through the thirds
  • When creating an overload tempo is key to this being successful
  • Ball Speed - Can we move the ball quickly to ensure we are progressing up the pitch
Managing Opposition 
  • During the first ten minutes opposition should be encouraged to press in all thirds aggressively to encourage the attackers to move the ball quickly.
  • Once we progress to allowing a 3rd defender in each zone they should be encouraged to sit off and let the attackers make a decision.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG

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SSG (20 mins)

Organisation

  • Reds set up with 2 holding midfielders', 2 wing backs, 2 attacking midfielders and a striker.
  • Blues set up with 3 CB's, 2 wing backs, 2 central midfielders and a striker (common player from specific practice becomes a blue).

SSG

Play starts with red goalkeeper, once they pass to a team mate we are in live play and the reds are trying to score in the blues goal and vice versa. The formation of the reds is set up to create overloads in 2 scenarios 1) One of the attacking midfielders dropping to create a 3 with the holding midfielders. 

2) One of the attacking midfielders working with the wing back to create an overload in the wide areas. 

Challenges

Depending on how the opposition are being managed can we look to create overloads in both scenario 1 and 2. For example when the opposition press high option 1 could be a better way to play as it will create space in behind. Whilst if the opposition sit off and remain compact the better option would be scenario 2 and try to play around them.

Coaching Points

  • Find the spare player
  • Commit the opposition to allow for space to be created
  • When are we looking to move through the thirds
  • When creating an overload tempo is key to this being successful
  • Ball Speed - Can we move the ball quickly to ensure we are progressing up the pitch

Managing Opposition 

  • During the first ten minutes opposition should be encouraged to press the attackers high up the field including pressing of the goalkeeper.
  • For the last 10 minutes opposition should remain compact and rigid, sitting off. This is to encourage a real life scenario of a team holding on to a lead for the last 10 minutes of a match and how we can break that down by using overloads.


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