If you want your team to have more creative options in the final third, use this session to encourage players to support team-mates and improve first-touch and accurate passing.
If you want your team to have more creative options in the final third, use this session to encourage players to support team-mates and improve first-touch and accurate passing. This shows how making runs and supporting play gives options to the player with the ball. Moves can involve more than two players, so all must be alert and move into a receiving position.
Set up
Set up an area of 20x20 yards with cones in the middle of each side labelled A, B, C and D. We used eight players.
How to play it
For the first part, we created two areas using four players in each. A player stands on each cone (A, B, C and D). Player A plays a pass to B, who has a choice of passing to C or D. Whichever player receives the ball, the other player turns back around the cone and receives a pass from C or D and dribbles to B. Players swap positions anti-clockwise. B now passes to A, who passes to C or D and the session continues.
Progress the session by playing 4v4 with two goals in the same area. Players must do the same movements under pressure and try to score in the goals, but the play must be in the style of the first part.
Technique
Look for good first touch, communication and accurate passing. As the session gets quicker, technique becomes vital or the ball will be lost.