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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

Defending counter attacks

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Counter-attacking and counter-pressing
Neil Lennon

Counter-attacking and counter-pressing

The basis of this training session is counter-attacking and counter-pressing. We start with a tactical passing drill and then we go into ...
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Coaching masterclass
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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Counter-pressing
Valerien Ismael

Counter-pressing

This session is all about counter-pressing and it encourages a high intensity style of play and instant reactions from the players.
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Using overloads to bear pressure
Joe Edwards

Using overloads to bear pressure

The main purpose of these exercises is to improve the basic habits of the players in possession of the ball.
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Defensive transition into effective possession
Cameron Toshack

Defensive transition into effective possession

This session is focused on two main themes: defensive transition (against the ball) and regaining to build effective possession (with the...
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Emergency defending
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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Improving transitions
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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Counter-attacking
Lewis Young

Counter-attacking

This training session is based on both aspects of the counter-attack, offering the defensive side of the team solutions to dealing with c...

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Transitioning to defence
Gus Poyet

Transitioning to defence

This is a session we use to train our players to transition to defence after losing the ball. In doing so, we encourage them to react ...
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COUNTER-ATTACKING WITH SPEED
Michael Beale

COUNTER-ATTACKING WITH SPEED

This session focuses on fast counter-attacking football when winning the ball. The moment a team regains possession, regardless of where on ...
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CONTINUOUS COUNTER-ATTACKING
Mitch Whitty

CONTINUOUS COUNTER-ATTACKING

This is an extremely high tempo session that focuses purely on counter-attacking to create overloads and fast transitions to set up as many ...
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Defensive transition
Slaven Bilic

Defensive transition

A defensive transition session. It helps to get players into the habit of reacting immediately after losing possession and works on ...
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Defending against wingers
Chris Hutchings

Defending against wingers

This session is about denying attacking teams opportunities to get in behind the defence by pressing early. It is important to practise ...
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Defending against counter-attacks
Ben Garner

Defending against counter-attacks

Defending against the counter-attack and reacting quickly to these transitions of play is important. That’s because in the modern era, once ...
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Cutting out counter-attacks
Keith Hill

Cutting out counter-attacks

Analysis at the end of our 2008/09 League Two campaign showed we needed to develop a new collective responsibility to defend against the ...
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Defensive principles
Roy Hodgson

Defensive principles

All basic defending principles can be developed and practised with this session, particularly holding up attacks, pushing up from the back, ...

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