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Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Third Man Runs

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Graham Carley
Name: Graham Carley
City: Corby
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Warm up

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Warm up

Set up a square

As players turn up, put them into groups of 3

Passing and moving as a 3.

Ask them to come up with ways of how the 3rd person can be effective during the practice.

Do they all stand still and just pass?

Do they move around and find space with passing to someone on the move?

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Build Up play using 3rd man run

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Build Up play using 3rd man run

Set up using 5 cones spaced out as shown in picture.

Play starts at one end.

First pass is to the middle player

They lay off the ball to the side

As the first ball is played the third player should be looking for where they want the next pass from the middle player.

Can they communicate to them to show where they want the ball, verbally or with hand gestures. We want the ball to be played in front of them.

2 touches max, 1 to control and the other to make a strong pass to the other end.

Play is then continued in the other direction

Players follow their pass to the next cone. Unless in the middle where you move to the third man cone nearest the start position of the exercise.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Over lapping run from build up

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We add 2 more cones centrally.

Reminding players to play the way they face.

First part is the same to the middle cone player.

They lay the ball off to the deeper midfielder

The 3rd man run now comes fro behind the deep midfielder so timing of the run is important.

Also COMMUNICATION to the midfielder is key to the pass.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 3rd man run and finsih

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3rd man run and finsih

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Overlapping run from build up to finish

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Overlapping run from build up to finish

We now remove the later part of the design and add a goal at the end.

We want all the things that have been leanrt up to now to finish with a shot on goal.

Still keeping to the 2 touch rule we have set for the session.

We can use both forms of the learning process to score a goal.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Set up Match inc 3rd man runs

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Set up Match inc 3rd man runs

We Set up a Square playing area

In the area it is always 2 touch

Inside we have 5v5

Outside we have a keeper and Neutral player at each end

We set a number of passes to be made before the ball can be played to the neutral player.

Using the skills from the session they can only score using the neutral player.

Pass to neutral back to passer = 1 goal

Pass to neutral back to a 3rd man run = 2 goal

If the defending team has the ball they can use the neutral player as a get out of danger pass and able to regroup.

Neutral players cant be tackled and have the same amount of touches as the regular players.

Challenges for Players

Can the players use just the one touch where possible

Can they shoot first using weaker foot?

Can you use either the communication methods

Progressions

The game can be moved to open play, and saying the neutral player can be used straight away.

Add Neutral players to the sides and the combinations have to come from there before using the end zone neutrals.

Change the end zone neutral to a team mate and also add a defender as well, making a 1v1 situation in end zone tht becomes a 2v1 with the lay off.

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