This is a session to teach your players how to adjust and react quickly when winning the ball so they can start counter attacks capable of catching the opposition out of position.
This is a session to teach your players how to adjust and react quickly when winning the ball so they can start counter attacks capable of catching the opposition out of position.
It’s a great way to practise changes in possession and fast counter attacks. Players look to pull defences apart by working quickly and by changing the direction of attack.
Use your normal pitch but just the section between penalty areas split into three zones. Small goals go on the four corners with two normal goals at either end. We’ve used 12 players.
Split players into two teams of five, plus two goalkeepers. One team attacks the two big goals and the other attacks the four mini goals. The team attacking the big goals must attack the goal in the half opposite to the one in which they received (or won) the ball. They are only allowed one player in each of the outer zones at a time.
The team attacking the four small goals can only go in the outer zones when they are in possession of the ball; at all other times they must stay in the centre. Play starts and restarts with one of the keepers passing to a player in the outer zone.
Look for fast counter attacks and movement to take advantage of opponents being out of position. The use of overloads when in possession is also key.
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