Attack after recovering the ball on the midfield - Transition
- 4 poles
- Markers
- 1 goal
- 7 vests (red in the picture)
- Balls
- Playing area: 60x55 meters
- Players: 16 + goalkeeper
- Duration: 24 minutes
- Series: 2 series of 10 minutes with 2 minutes of passive recovery inbetween series
Summary | Secondary Objectives |
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Attacking action after recovering the ball for fast attacks |
Pass, Finishing, Pass and move, Creating width and depth, Switching the attack, Improvisation, Mobility, Defensive shape, Zonal defending, Management and limitation of risk, Man on man, Solid and unit |
Form a 60x55 meters area (About 10-15 meters past the half field line). With poles create two goals (2 meters wide) along the goal line. On the opposite side there is a standard goal defended by a goalkeeper. The game is played by 9 attackers (white vests) against 7 defenders (red vests) plus the goalkeeper. White team must score on the standard goal. One of the 9 attacking players must have the ball and play as support (without moving forward too much). Also 3 defending players (A1, A2 and A3 in the picture) stay in their position in order to support. The 7 defenders try to recover the ball and take it out passing through the small goals in 5 consecutive passes at most. In the middle of the pitch place a cone (starting point).
- The game starts from the cone: player D4 pretends to lose the ball right on the midfield, with a pass towards one of the white players (A1). A transition situation from defense to attack is set. The team that attacks must place its players wide apart quickly in order to look for some depth
- D4 passes the ball to A1, faking a wrong pass that allows white players to start the attacking phase
- The red team must regroup to defend by going quickly towards the player with the ball
- A1 tries to get rid of the pressing and play with the attacking teammates towards the goal
- A1 passes the ball taking into account the best passing lanes and combinations
- Both teams perform a thematic match of ball possession (free ball touches)
- The attacking players (white vests) get 1 point if they score in the standard goal
- The defending players (red vests) get 1 point when they pass through the small goals
- After the first series swap seven defenders with seven attackers
- Allow all attacking players to participate in the action and move forward (None of the players stands still on the same position)
- Add a defender in order to create a defense of 4 and a midfielder to have a midfield with 3 players
- Change the position of ball recovery that initiates the attacking phase
- Useful exercise to train what players should do after recovering the ball
- Exercise that trains the team for breadth and depth movements during an attacking action
- Immediate breadth movement of attacking players right after recovering the ball
- Create exchanges with triangulation
- Midfielders and forwards should make use of sprints in order to unmark themselves
- Move the ball quickly towards the outside of the recovery point from the midfield
- Encourage players to face a 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 1 with defenders
- Encourage players to execute long passes in order to switch the orientation, in depth passes, overlapping runs and wall passes
- Ask players to play keeping their head up