Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): CREATING & EXPLOTING OVERLOADS SESSION 1

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Joshua Bray

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Name:	Joshua Bray
City:	Maidstone
Country:	United Kingdom
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): CREATING & EXPLOITING OVERLOADS SPECIFIC PRACTICE

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CREATING & EXPLOITING OVERLOADS SPECIFIC PRACTICE

Creating & Exploiting Overloads - Specific Practice

Red Team are set up in a 4-3-3 in which I have removed the GK & 2 CB's.

Green team is made up of a GK, Back 4 and 2 wingers.

The ball starts from the Red number 6 that will feed a pass into the attaking team on one side of the pitch. At this moment, the attcaking team has 3v2 overload they will look to exploit in the 'combination zone' withe the full back, winger and the ball side midfielder aginst the defending sides full back and winger.

The attacking team must play forward from the combination zone for one of the players on that side to deliver the ball in the box, once the ball has been played in the crossing zone, the green defenders are unable to recover to stop the cross.

If the defending team win the ball back, they will look to socre in the mini goals. Red team can counter press immediately to win posession back.

When the ball is delivered, the opposite winger, number 9 and opposite midfielder should attack the box with the number 6 locking the attack in if necessary.

Green team will be managed by ensuring the back 4 will start on the edge of the penalty box.

Coaching Points:

- Attackers should look to make runs behind the defending full back.

- Third man runs, players should look to take adavntage of the overlkoad by utilising third man runs to gain entry into the crossing zone.

- Creativity. Players will be encouraged to be inventive within the session and find different ways of combining in order to progress up the pitch.

- Combination Play. Differnet types of movements that can be effective in these moments such as overlaps, underlaps and 1-2's.

Progressions:

- Defending team can now run back and look to block the cross in the crossing zone if necessary.

- Attacking team can deliver the ball from deeper (in the combination zone) as this may be the best way to take advantage of the overload in certain moments e.g if the winger and ball side 8 are the players being marked, the best decision may be to deliver from a deeper position.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): CREATING & EXPLOITING OVERLOADS SSG

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Creating & Exploiting Overloads - SSG

Red Team are set up in a 4-3-3 without the 2 CB's.

Green Team are set up in a 4-2-3-1 in which I have removed the Number 10 and one of the central midfielders.

Block 1:

Red team will look to attack and score against the greens, any goal scored after an assist from the zones psotioned ion the final third will be worth three points. This will encourage players to work the ball into the wide areas and use the zones in order to score.

Green team will be encouraged to press high for the first block, this should allow the opportunity for the Red team to create chances from the assist zone and take advantage of the overloads.

If the green team win the ball back, their challenge is to score within 6 seconds.

Coaching Points:

Timing of movements. The player who is going to make the run to exploit the space in behind needs to identify when the pass will be made to time their run accordingly.

Corner Runs. Look at players that can make a corner run to take advantage of the overload. An example of this would be the ball side midfielder making an in to out run for a pass to be slid towards the corner to deliver a cross.

Block 2:

In block 2, the green team will be told to retreat b elow the halfway line into a low block. This will offer a different challenge to the attacking team as the space will be limited.

The red teams challenge will be to take advantage of the overloads with quick combination play.