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LOGINFast forward to create overlaps
Help your players reposition themselves quickly to make use of quick ball and overlaps. This session works on footwork, handling and decision making. Players who stay balanced as they move will see the gaps.
CHALLENGE
Get into an attacking shape and then run hard and straight to engage defenders and move the ball to space.
SET UP
Cones and a ball.
how to do it
ACTIVITY
- Put four attackers close and opposite two defenders, so there are two spare attackers at one end.
- On your command the defenders run back to a set of cones and then run forward to pressurise their opposite player. In the meantime, the attackers realign, receive a pass from a feeder at the side and pass the ball through all the attackers to the end.
- Adjust distances to create different challenges.
DEVELOPMENTS
- Add a defender and have one of the defenders “double team” one of the attackers.
- Allow the defenders to drift, but allow the attackers to use switch or miss passes.
- Use full-on tackling – that will really test speed on to the ball.
- Start the defenders on different cones.
- Have two of the attackers run to the side, not backwards.
- Start two of the attackers behind the other two attackers.
TECHNIQUE
- Keep looking forward.
- Keep the passes firm and at chest height so the receiver can look up.
- Trust your pass – don’t delay with indecision.
- The attackers and defenders line up with an overlap for the attack
- Don’t allow miss passes with just two defenders
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- On your command, the attackers realign and the defenders retreat to the cones behind them
- The ball is fed to the attackers and passed through all the pairs of hands to the end attacker, while the defenders close down the two attackers in front of them
- You can adjust the position of these cones, make them different colours and call out a different colour
Dan Cottrell
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