Tony Mowbray

Coaching Sessions

Pressing with team connectivity to score more

Defending

This session is all about encouraging the different units of a team to connect together to win the ball back from an opponent and create goal scoring opportunities quickly and efficiently.

Playing and receiving through the lines

Attacking

This session is about passing and receiving through the lines of the opposition.

Defending the box

Defending

My defenders tend to panic when winning the ball in defence and punt the ball out, only for it to come straight back. How can I get them to be more controlled when clearing their lines? Question answered by Tony Mowbray

Exploiting possession

Formations & Tactics

This session is focused on creating opportunities from possession. Every team should work on their ability to maintain and exploit possession because, when harnessed to attacking intent, keeping hold of the ball is the best way to break down defences and create goal-scoring chances. This kind of play greatly increases a team’s chances of winning games.

Passing and possession

In Possession

This session is about retaining and developing possession, plus switching play. It relies on smart decision making as well as excellent movement and communication between players.

Combination play and finishing

In Possession

Work on crossing and finishing techniques with this session that focuses on passing and combination play between wing backs and wide players, resulting in plenty of shooting opportunities.

Biography

Beginning his coaching career as first-team coach at Ipswich Town, Tony Mowbray had a brief spell as caretaker manager at the Portman Road club before taking his first permanent managerial job at Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League in 2004. In his debut season at Easter Road, he won the Scottish Football Writers’ Association Manager of the Year award and the following season he was voted Scottish Premier League manager of the year. Moving to West Bromwich Albion, he won the EFL Championship title in 2008 and led the club in the Premier League the following season. Mowbray was then appointed as manager of his former club, Celtic, before returning to Middlesbrough, the club where he had started his playing career. He subsequently enjoyed a spell as manager of Coventry City before joining Blackburn Rovers in February 2017. He was unable to prevent the struggling side from being relegated, but under his managership Blackburn won promotion back to the EFL Championship after just one season in League One.

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