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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

Team defending

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Darrell Clarke

Out of possession match preparation

The session is based around an out of possession practice when concentrating on preparing for a league fixture against a 3-5-2 formation.

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Gary O'Neil

Possession with pressing intensity and transition

This session works on maintaining possession with elements of pressing intensity and transition.

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Chris Hughton

Four day build up to playing 3-4-3

This session was taken from the four day period between games in our recent international week. In my time as Ghana coach, we have always...

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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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Liam Bramley

Counter-attacking on transitions

This session focuses on the transitional moment of regaining possession of the ball.

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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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Paul Hurst

Effective counter-attacking

This session is based on encouraging players to make counter-attacks and it emphasises forward runs and playing forward quickly when poss...

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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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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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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 defensive ...

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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 ...

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Paul Mcguinness

Win the ball and break

This session is about winning the ball back and breaking quickly to score – it’s based in the middle third of the pitch but the skills ...

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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 ...

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Steve Morison

Managing transitions with and without the ball

This session is about making decisions in a controlled setting in order to make thinking and problem solving on game day much easier.

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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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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 ...

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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 many ...

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Mark Hudson

Attacking transition from a fight zone

This session is all about rehearsing players to make the transition from defence to attack. It is made up of two parts: the first part is a ...

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John Carver

Transition to attack from a low block

This session is all about turning defence into attack from the edge of our own box in a controlled and effective manner.

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Michael Flynn

Breaking out from defensive stability

This session is about defensive stability when playing in a 4-2-3-1 formation against possession-based teams, with a focus on breaking out ...

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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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Paul Hurst

Possession and transition

This session involves two teams playing against each other but each team has a different objective.

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