By Philip Connolly Objective: To work on players ability to create chances and finish in the final third of the pitch. Practice 1: Objective: To start the players finishing on goal early in the session while also having to combine with players to move around the area to score so working on scanning ability and awareness.
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By Philip Connolly Objective: To work on players ability to play through midfield in order to attack. Practice 1: 4 v 4 + 4 Practice focusing on players retaining possession was playing in a shape representing the 1-3-4-1 formation in the 9 v 9 game. Try to use the two CM (white) players as often as
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By Philip Connolly Objective: The objective of the following training session is to work the players to be aware of and have the ability to switch the point of attack in order to exploit space or overload situations. Practice 1: Practice designed to force the players into switching the point of attack. Two teams of six
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By Philip Connolly Objective: The objective of the following training session is to work on aspects of retaining purposeful possession in order to build combinations to play forward with transition actions in winning and losing possession of the ball. Practice 1: Warm-up activity to introduce some of combination patterns that we would encourage the players to
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By Philip Connolly Relationship between Midfield and Attacking Units when building an attack in a 1-3-5-2 Formation Objective: The objective of the following training session is to work on aspects of the relationship between Midfield and Attacking Units when attacking in the final third. Practice 1: Working on moving the ball from midfield into the forward
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By Philip Connolly Objective: The objective of the following training session is to work on aspects of the relationship between Defensive and Midfield Units with focus on building up play from Defence to Attack. Practice 1: Practice 1 working on the structure of 1-3-5-2 Defensive and Midfield units in a possession based attacking shape. 1 Black
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