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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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Paul Robinson

Crossing, finishing and defending

The balls start from the central area of the exercise with the coach. Players who are working start in the centre, alongside the coach, w...

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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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Lee Johnson

Decision making in the final third

This session is all about recognising the best opportunities for playing through, over or around the opposition’s defence. For example, r...

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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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Mark Warburton

Defending the penalty area

This is a session designed to focus on defending our own penalty area, primarily from crossed deliveries, but as the session develops we ...

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Willie Kirk

Match day preparation

This session is designed to be run as match preparation on Match Day -1 and it is our last training session before a game. By the end of ...

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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 w...

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Christopher Evans

Compact defending

This session is all about learning how to defend in our own half, while tactically forcing the opposition into wide areas and encouraging ...

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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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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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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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Paul Heckingbottom

Defending principles

This session is all about building the defensive role of every position when out of possession. It starts with individuals defending in 1v1 ...

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Andy Thorn

Balancing the back four

This session is about the back four working as a unit. It looks for them to clear the ball past a target when dealing with a range of ...

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Andy Quy

Great goalkeeping

This is a session for goalkeepers that teaches and rehearses dealing with crosses, both opposed and unopposed, and in the context of a ...

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Mark Bowen

Defending crosses

Use this session to develop the decision making and positional awareness of defenders when faced with a variety of dangerous balls crossed ...

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Kenny Jackett

Dealing with crosses

Get your players dealing with crosses that are played both into and outside of the 18-yard box. Heading, clearances, blocks and ...

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Javi Gracia

Defending crosses

This is a session to improve both individual and team defending when an attack comes from wide and balls are crossed into the box.

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Eric Kinder

Attack and defend: wide and central

As well as encouraging attacking angles, movement, link-up play and positivity in front of goal, this session also gives defenders practice ...

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Simon Grayson

Defending crosses

Challenge your players to properly defend crosses into the 18-yard box with this session that examines the requirements of technique, ...

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Alan Pardew

Defending crosses

You only have to look at the number of goals scored from crosses to know why it’s important for to practise this session. It works ...

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Sam Allardyce

Defending the box

The session looks at the core ideal of defending the box, and with it, the goal. It uses 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 systems working in a unit, ...

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Claudio Ranieri

Counter-attacking and transitions

This session is about counter-attacking with pace on the first phase, decision-making and game-related play thereafter.

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