Liam Manning

Coaching Sessions

Beating a block

In Possession

This session is focused on teaching players to beat a block. It’s about dominating possession and identifying when to attack down the side, or play through or over a team that sets up in a low/medium block. Within this, it’s also about isolating common methods that will occur and allowing for a high repetition of these methods.

Biography

Liam Manning is currently the manager of EFL League One club Oxford United. He started his coaching career at Ipswich Town’s academy before joining Premier League side West Ham United in 2015 as head coach of the club’s U23s. In 2019 he left West Ham to join City Football Group, initially as director of coaching with Major League Soccer side New York City FC, before later progressing to the role of academy director. Staying within City Football Group, in July 2020 Liam Manning was named head coach of Belgian First Division B club, Lommel SK, where he took over a struggling side and led them to a third-place finish in the league. Joining League One club Milton Keynes Dons as head coach in August 2021, in his one full season in charge he was twice voted EFL League One Manager of the Month and he took the club to a third-place finish and qualification for the play-offs.

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Liam Manning

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Beating a block

Biography

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