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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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Mark Robins

Create chances and score goals with attacking transitions

This session creates opportunities for attacking transitions. Every aspect of play will be challenged, including the reaction of the play...

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Stephen Robinson

Transitions

This session is a combination of our midfield press transitioning into regaining possession and our forward combination play.

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Gabriele Cioffi

Go deep

This session is all about how and when to go deep, attacking the room behind the shoulders of the opposition’s defensive line.

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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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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 qui...

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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 ma...

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Nigel Pearson

Creating scoring opportunities

This session is about attacking with purpose and quality. It focuses on developing good combination play between attacking players and pr...

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Veljko Paunović

General possession and tactical concepts

This session is about having possession in the opposition’s half of the pitch. It’s about looking to move the ball from side-to-side to get ...

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Patrick Vieira

Principles of play

With our tactical periodisation, we will aim to emphasise all phases of the game on a weekly basis.

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Tony Docherty

Channel, press and counter

This session is designed to prepare the team to channel opponents into an area where we have an advantage or an overload, then intensely ...

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Clinton Lancaster

Transition Play

The main focus of this session is on transitional play, where we aim to hit the wide areas of the pitch as quickly as possible. We then ...

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Gavin Skelton

Counter-attacking

This session is all about counter-attacking at pace. It teaches players to quickly turn defence into attack while opponents are out of ...

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Steven Gerrard

Creativity in the final third

This session is designed to help a team’s creativity in the final third. It looks to provide opportunities for the players to create goal-...

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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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Sam Allardyce

Counter-attacking with speed

This session is designed to improve a team’s threat when counter-attacking and it’s all about gaining an advantage by promoting a positive ...

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Steve Foley

Switching play

The main aim of this session is to encourage players to attempt to exploit space with overloads and speed. It also
helps the players to ...

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Ben Garner

Intense pressing and recovery

This session focuses on pressing and recovering with intensity. Within the session there is a position-specific element, where the players ...

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Riteesh Mishra

Play forward and support

This training session is about creating opportunities to play forward passes into the feet of forward players, or into attacking space. It ...

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Neil Ardley

Defending principles in units

This session is about working with team mates to stop opposition teams playing beyond you, by simple balance and communication that can be ...

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Mark Robins

Attacking crosses in a 4-3-3

This session focuses on attacking crosses when playing in a 4-3-3 formation and looks at what happens when the centre forward drops deep to ...

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Jan Siewert

Attacking in the final third

This session is aimed at encouraging players to attack with confidence in the final third. To play attacking football it is really ...

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Ian Holloway

Penetrating or protecting the defensive line

We’re looking for attackers to fashion goalscoring opportunities both when in and out of possession, while defenders must concentrate on ...

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Nigel Clough

Attacking & defending

This session focuses on the techniques of attacking and defending in and around the penalty area, giving players the opportunity to ...

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