Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Highline FC week 13 session 1 Finishing fast breaks

20 min technical

The Great escape

Set Up - 

30x30m square with 4 "gates" around the square

6 attacking players with a ball (blue) 

4 defenders (red) 

Play starts with each attacking player dribbling around the square, when the coach says GO attacking players must try to escape out of the box through the gates, each time they successfully dribble through a gate they must come back into the box and score 1 point. 

If Defenders win the ball they have 6 seconds to try and pass into the mini goals which will be outside of the square to score a point.

escaping pressure shooting drill - 10 mins

Set up -

x1 Full size goal 

x1 Defender (blue) 

Player one will pass into player 2 who will try to turn player 3 who is applying pressure behind and shoot within 3 touches.

After shooting player 1 becomes player 2 and player 2 becomes player 3 and player 3 joins the back of the line.