Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Shaddow Play Develop forward runs

Pattern 1

Movements

Ball played to full back, then the movement is as above:

Striker comes short leaving space for opposite wide player to exploit.

Nearest central midfielder makes run into channel and further central midfield comes across to look for pass into feet.

Both movements from striker and further central midfielder are more of and unselfish run as they are distractions for team mates to get into good poistions.

Pattern 3

Pattern 3

Ball played into centre back, then into deepest midfielder.

Striker comes short to receive ball into feet, wide left player comes inside and get ball laid off to him.

Right back over laps and gets ball played into path to cross ball.

Both central midfielders run beyond striker and into box (one near post and one far). Striker spins and looks for pull back. Opposite full back makes overlap and get into box (back post)

Reflection on Session

Reflection

Players Used: Llangwnydd 1st team

DESCRIPTION. What happened...

Using 20 players and 2 goalkeepers.

Session was enjoyables and players were energetic and enthusiastic wanting to score goals.

The patterns that we worked on showed when we took it into a 30 minute game. Although other patterns occured which had both midfieldera and full backs running into box.

Feelings....

Before: I felt the session would good well as its an attacking session and the fact that the emphasis was on scoring would give players a boost.

During: Session was running smoothly. During the 30 minute game different patterns occured and this showed imagination and decision making from the players.

After: I felt the session could have gone better as the opposition did break up play before we could get into the final third.

EVALUATION.

Good.. Players movement and quality of passes was very good. Communication and angle of runs were OK, could have been better.

Bad... Opposition broke play up too many times before we got into final third.

Analysis... How I influenced session.

By giving ideas and freedom for players to make forward runs.

Sowing several patterns but then letting players use imagination and expressing themselves.

Conclusion..

Session was ok. I would take it into a half pitch practice next time taking several players out of the equation and focussing on the most impotant players first.

Action Plan.

Next time on this topic I will go from half pitch practice to 11v11.

Limitations.

The session didnt have limitations, we only had one pitch to work on and there were 4 players that had to be rotated.

As it was a shaddow practice there wasnt great urgency at the beginning of the session.