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Playing out from the back

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Harry Watling

6v6+6 build v break

The session consists of 18 players in three teams of six. The ideal scenario is to use this practice straight after some unopposed build-...

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Armand Kavaja

Playing out vs high press

This session focuses on pressure, cover and balance. During the session, players will get plenty of opportunity to play under high pressu...

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Dave Challinor

Pressing and transition

This session really brings everything that my teams do. It’s the first one I do when I go into any club, because it just sets the tone: p...

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Gerard Nash

Quick but careful

This training session is all about retaining possession to build.

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Steven Gerrard

Breaking the press

This session is about practising solutions to break the opposition team’s press.

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Hassan Sulaiman

Playing out from the back

This session is based on playing out from the back against a high press. The session will be split into three practices.

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Julen Lopetegui

Coaching masterclass

This is less a training session and more a collection of exercises that emphasise my football DNA. I selected these to represent my coach...

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James Brayne

Utilising the full back in build-up play

This session is designed around using our full backs in build-up play. It is split into two activities, with the first technical practice...

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Stephen Clemence

Attacking patterns against a deep block

This session helps to break down opponents who set up in a deep block against us.

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Sergio Ferreira

Beat the press, unlock the block

This is a specific training session that we use to prepare our players in a week when we’re due to face a team that tries to press really ...

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Emma Hayes

Play around to play through

This session has a focus on attacking strategy and we used it prior to a Champion’s League game. It allows the team to execute our build up ...

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Michael Carrick

Combining to progress through the pitch

This session is about working together to open up space on the pitch so the team can penetrate opponents quickly by passing forward and ...

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Julen Lopetegui

Attacking against a 1-5-3-2 formation

The main aim of this session is to prepare a team playing in a 1-4-4-3 system with a possession style, to beat an opponent playing in a 1-5-...

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Bruno Lage

Building up

This session is about building up play from the goalkeeper and the centre backs and it is intended to develop and improve circulation and ...

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Chris Davies

Building an attack against a high press

The build-up phase can be defined as the process of progressing the ball into the opposition’s half. In modern football, more teams than ...

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Sam Rose

Playing forward from the defensive third

This session is aimed at developing a team’s decision making in possession when playing against an opposition that press high. The session ...

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Tony Morton

Encouraging combination play

This session is all about finding support positions to encourage combination play and to change the point of attack. In the modern game ...

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Ralph Hasenhüttl

Possession play to build attacks

The purpose of this training session is to encourage the team to retain possession and build play from the back. The players enjoy this ...

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Paul Buckle

Think forward and play forward

In possession, a team is at its most dangerous when a player can make a forward pass to a team mate running in a forward direction. This ...

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Neil Lennon

Build up and attack with overloads

This training session allows us to focus on attacking play with overloads. It also helps us to work on positional play and how to progress ...

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Tom McStravick

Building an attack from the back

This session is all about building the attack from the goalkeeper and breaking through a high press. In this activity we see the goalkeeper ...

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David Flitcroft

Playing through the thirds with your number 10 as a playmaker

This session looks at retaining possession in aiming to find the number 10 (the attacking midfielder) in between the lines.

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Mick Wadsworth

Forward thinking

At any level, the ability to attack the opposition with quick, positive forward play can yield terrific rewards.

This session requires ...

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Josh Brehaut

Building from the back

This session is focused on starting attacks from inside the defensive third of the pitch, specifically when playing against a front three ...

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