This session gets teams to link up play from back to front, with movement and passing options in each zone and plenty of scoring opportunities for strikers.
This is a great training game for getting strikers to read the play and move for the pass. Your players will set up plenty of scoring chances for the team with this activity. This session gets teams to link up play from back to front, with movement and passing options in each zone and plenty of scoring opportunities for strikers.
Create an area of 45x20 yards split into three 15x20-yard zones with a goal at each end. We used 16 players. You need balls, bibs, cones and goals.
Split your players into two teams of seven plus goalkeepers. Both teams start with three players in the defensive zone, three players in the midfield zone and one player in the attacking zone in a 3-3-1.
Each team must make three passes or more in the defensive zone and again in the midfield zone before the ball can move out into the attacking zone.
There are no restrictions in the attacking zone. Teams must have one player in the attacking zone and one player in the defending zone at all times, but other than that, players are free to move around the zones.
This is a basic, tactical session in playing out from the back and through the thirds. You should look for good passing and movement, with finishing technique from the striker.
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