Key Coaching Points
Maintaining good body position whilst looking to retain possession is important to assess opportunities to make penetrating pass to perimeter target player.
• Emphasis on supporting play within short range (i.e. 4v2 situation), whilst looking for longer-range passes to open-up play.
• Patience and continuous assessment needed to make decisions on appropriate time to play penetrating pass.
Maintaining good body position whilst looking to retain possession is important to assess opportunities to make penetrating pass to perimeter target player.
• Emphasis on supporting play within short range (i.e. 4v2 situation), whilst looking for longer-range passes to open-up play.
• Patience and continuous assessment needed to make decisions on appropriate time to play penetrating pass.
Practice organisation
• Area 20x10yds with half way line marked, as illustrated.
• 14 players, 2 balls.
• Practice starts with: 4 attackers versus 2 defender in each half, with 2 target players on opposite sides of square ready to receive.
• Attackers within each internal square keep possession, looking for opportunities to transfer ball to a target player supporting play on the perimeter opposite.
• Objective is to keep possession in own half, whilst looking for opportunity to transfer ball to far side target player.
• Ball is transferred back to attackers by target player to restart practice.
Detail
• This ratio can be adjusted to suit ability.
• Ball must be passed to target player along ground (no aerial passing).
• Target player dribbles ball outside internal working area to transfer a pass back into attackers to restart practice.
• Players need to be aware and assess opportunities to make penetrating passes through an ever-changing picture.
• Simple progressions for this practice are:
- Target player dribbles ball back to restart practice and becomes defender once transferring ball into attackers.
- Previous defender then takes place of target player on outside.
• Area 20x10yds with half way line marked, as illustrated.
• 14 players, 2 balls.
• Practice starts with: 4 attackers versus 2 defender in each half, with 2 target players on opposite sides of square ready to receive.
• Attackers within each internal square keep possession, looking for opportunities to transfer ball to a target player supporting play on the perimeter opposite.
• Objective is to keep possession in own half, whilst looking for opportunity to transfer ball to far side target player.
• Ball is transferred back to attackers by target player to restart practice.
Detail
• This ratio can be adjusted to suit ability.
• Ball must be passed to target player along ground (no aerial passing).
• Target player dribbles ball outside internal working area to transfer a pass back into attackers to restart practice.
• Players need to be aware and assess opportunities to make penetrating passes through an ever-changing picture.
• Simple progressions for this practice are:
- Target player dribbles ball back to restart practice and becomes defender once transferring ball into attackers.
- Previous defender then takes place of target player on outside.