Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Defending the Switch 2

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Defending the Switch of Play in a 4-4-2 against a 4-3-3

Red Team will be in a 4-4-2 missing 1 GK 2 FB 1 CB ( GK will come in during SSG )

Blue Team will be in a 4-3-3 missing the front 3

Red's Objectives: 

- To stop the switch of play. 

Blue Team Objectives:

- To use the switch of play and play forwards into the mini nets.

Red team ( Coaching Team ) Blue team ( Management Team ) 

Key Points

- Pressing angle

- timings

- body position

- pressing triggers

Problem 1 

The Blue team has an overload in midfield and they have a +1 advantage over the Reds. 

Solution 1:

A solution for this will be to have the Red 6 to get tight to the Blue 10 to make it a 3v3 in the middle. ( the Blue 10 will be told to stay high to make the pitch bigger). 

Problem 2: The Blue 10 drops in very deep to collect the ball off the CB's

Solution 2: We will drop off and become narrow and compact and as soon as the ball goes wide we press looking to keep them wide.

Coaching Style:

I will use walkthroughs to show the solutions so the players have a visual example of what the solutions look like and the different ways we can achieve them. 

I will use concurrent coaching throughout the session to give individual feedback to certain players who look like they're struggling.

I will use terminal coaching when I am giving out the main bulk of information for example if I am giving the solution to the problem I will stop the session and bring the red team in for a quick chat to tell them the solution to the problem. 

Timings

This main practice will be 20 minutes in total. 

Block 1:

The first block will be 5 minutes with a 1-minute break and in this block, it is going to be free play for the first 30 sec and then I will introduce problem 1 and solution 1.

Block 2:

Block 2 will be a 5-minute block with a minute break and in block 2 I will start to introduce problem 2 and introduce solution 2.

Block 3:

this block will be 7 minutes and will have a 1- minute water break at the end before the small-sided game and in this block, we will have free play and I will look to solve any other issues we may come across.

SSG:

The small-sided game will be 15 minutes long with little intervention and I will observe if they have taken in any information from the main session and I will look to intervene when there is a big problem that needs dealing with.