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Moments of the game

Transition to defend

You either have the ball or you don't!

This section categorises activity based on the moments of the game - allowing you to select drills and games based on being in possession or out of possession. As well as transitioning to attack and transitioning to defence.

This categorisation of drills is useful in identifying activities within a game model.

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Practice 1: Attack to defence

Your team has lost the ball – these practices will help sharpen their reactions to win it back.

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Practice 2: Attack to defence

Your team has lost the ball – these practices will help sharpen their reactions to win it back.

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Pressing to dictate

Work on the pressing of the front three to force the play in a particular direction.

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Small-Sided Game: Defending in our half

This session focuses on defensive principles and developing defensive techniques.

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Practice: Defending in our half

This session focuses on defensive principles and developing defensive techniques.

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Covering your back

Deal with aerial balls pumped into the box and encourage your players to defend as a unit. By MICHAEL BEALE

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Transition and counter

A constantly flowing practice using 3v3 to develop speed of thought and decision making.

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Out of possession tactics

Out of possession teams can control the game by forcing play into areas of the pitch that are easier to control. With positional play opp...

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Counter revolution

This session helps teams turn defence into attack as quickly as possible, creating temporary overloads.

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Anticipate long passes

It is important to press defenders and not give them chance to play long passes that can catch an unwary defence out. Coaching players to ...

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Transition in defence

When a team wins or loses the ball, they have to react. Here the defenders must react quickly or they will lose a goal. It encourages teams ...

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Stop the star player

Use this activity to help your team learn how to contain the opposition’s special threat.

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Shoot from wide angles

Shooting from wide angles is all about accuracy, confidence and skill. Young players are often scared to try shooting from outside the box, ...

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Get centrebacks scoring

This is a fast, technical game that forces central defenders to support the attack and get themselves on the score sheet. It also shows ...

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Driving range

Use this training session to show your forwards how to bring other players into the game in the final third of the pitch. This will get ...

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Attack-defend-attack

Use this session as a way of getting fast breaking teams to tear through a static defence and create lots of goalscoring chances. In this ...

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Control the goal

Teams must be in control of the match by scoring first – then they have to build on that to win the game. This is all about taking control ...

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Bounce

This training session is a good workout for forwards pressing and forcing mistakes high up the pitch. It also helps to develop link play in ...

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Total attack

This is good for attackers working the ball through an organised defence, and it has lots of chances for the attack to catch opponents on ...

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Create like Neymar

This game creates space on the pitch that skilful players can use to take advantage of overloads and score goals. By removing players there ...

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Dealing with angles

Teach your goalkeeper how to turn dangerous angled shots away to safety by using this competitive end-to-end training game.

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Get it wide

Use this session to encourage your players to get the ball wide in order to open up the pitch for an attacking move and to create more ...

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Front press

The session is all about players who are ahead of the ball being able to recover to get behind it when possession is lost, forming a ...

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Delay from the front

When the ball is lost in attack, this shows forwards that they must immediately try to get the ball back by pressing high up the pitch.

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