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Emergency Defending

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Matthew Etherington

Emergency defending

This training session is a based around a 4v2 possession scenario that progresses into a 5v4 overloaded transition for the defenders.

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Mark Hudson

Improving transitions

This training session is designed to create multiple opportunities for players to instantly switch from an attacking moment to a defensiv...

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Alex Bruce

Attacking and defending in wide and central areas

In this session two teams work on attacking and defending in wide and central areas of the pitch

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Alan Pardew

Defending crosses with a back three

This session is all about setting a team up in a 3-5-2 formation and coaching them to defend against crosses from wide areas. It initiall...

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Jack Cassidy

Full backs defending in wide areas

This is a position-specific session aimed at making full backs better at defending in wide areas of the pitch.

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Dean Smith

Defending the box

This session is all about the back four and the real basics of defending. It teaches players that if one player goes for a header, the ot...

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Gabriele Cioffi

Building up and transition to defend a cross

This session is about how we get our centre backs to build up play against two or three opponents (two strikers, or two strikers and one ...

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Mark Bowen

Defending 1v1 and against overloads

This training session is aimed at educating defenders in the skillsets, communication ability and decision making needed when they are go...

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Jack Ross

Improving the defence

This training session gives your players the opportunity to rehearse different kinds of defending, setting up situations where they are: ...

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Graham Alexander

Defending in the final third

This session is all about defending in the final third. It’s a practice that we use regularly as it replicates situations that defenders ...

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Stephen Constantine

Defending crosses

This session is designed to rehearse players in defending against different types of cross from a variety of positions on the pitch, so we ...

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Gary Rowett

Defending the danger zone

This session is designed to work on defending in the ‘danger zone’, but it also works on attacking in the danger zone too. Studies have ...

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Nigel Adkins

Defending crosses

This session enables defenders to learn how to best to repel a number of different crosses into the box. We test defensive strength against ...

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Joe Dunne

Defending the phases from crosses

This session helps players improve their ability to defend the first ball into the box, then subsequent phases of crosses.

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David Kemp

Defensive headers

This session examines the skill and art of defensive headers. It’s a simple exercise, but practice makes permanent.

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Mark Yates

Reorganising for the second phase of crossing

This session is about defending the second ball. There are a number of teams in our league who use crosses into the box as a key repetitive ...

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Shot-stopping for keepers

This high tempo session is used to improve a goalkeeper’s footwork and mobility around the six-yard box. It helps him to move into line and ...

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John McMahon

Crosses into the box

This session examines the roles of the keeper when dealing with crossing, and attacking threat from wingers and forwards in penalty box ...

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Tony Mowbray

Defending the box

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 ...

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Gareth Ainsworth

Defending crosses

This session is all about defending against crosses in and around the penalty area. It allows us to work with the players on their ...

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Steve Davis

Preventing crosses

This session is about full-backs and wingers stopping crosses into the penalty area.

Most attacks come from out wide, so the ability for ...

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Roberto Martinez

The 1v1 situation

Any football game relies on being able to control 1v1 situations, in defence or in attack. In 1v1s, it’s not just the technical aspect of ...

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Martin Ling

Defending in the final third

This session examines defending in the final third, specifically through the organisation and movement of the back four.

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Derek Egan

Emergency defending with a back three

This training session is focused on making the three centre backs understand the four D’s – that they should delay, deny, dictate and ...

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