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Steve Foley

Creating space in midfield

These exercises will help the midfield players to recognise space and encourage them to exploit it when in possession, as well as looking...

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Gary Caldwell

PASSING AND RECEIVING

In this session, technical, physical and social elements combine into a passing and receiving practice that works on all elements of pass...

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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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Gary Rowett

Defending and the transition to counter-attack

These activities are designed to move the ball with speed and quality along with getting players to transition quickly into counter-attac...

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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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Steve Morison

Switching play

This session is all about switching play, particularly when we are trying to encourage players to use the switch to get beyond the last l...

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Stephen Constantine

Switching play

In this session we focus on switching play and trying to create numerical advantages all over the pitch. The objective is to exploit the ...

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Mark Bonner

Playing forwards through midfield

This session is all about the movement of midfield players and their receiving skills to pass forward.

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Dmitri Lavrinovic

Better finishing

This session is designed to support and develop a range of finishing skills in and around penalty area. It is a very realistic session with ...

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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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Jonathan Morgan

Pressing to regain possession

This is a pressing session and it works on encouraging players to aggressively press and regain the ball quickly.
It focuses on an ...

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Paul Barry

Rapid fire

This activity is about executing a variety of different shooting and finishing techniques. Players will have opportunities to try and score ...

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Ralph Hasenhüttl

Possession play to build attacks

The purpose of this training session is to encourage the team to retain possession and build play from the back. The players enjoy this ...

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Kofi Hagan

Quick play through central midfield

This is a small unit session that works on passing aspects of a midfielder’s play in the central area of the pitch, including changing ...

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Chris Hughton

Wide attacking runs and crosses

This training session encourages players to make attacking runs in wide areas of the pitch leading to crosses into the penalty area.

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Mick McCarthy

Defending against a narrow attack

This session is focused on finding a solution for the defensive problems caused by playing against a narrow attacking front four.

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Post-match training

This is a session we actually ran after a pre-season game at Valencia this year. For the players that played more than 60 minutes of the ...

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Stuart Gray

Possession drills with players in position

The aim of the session is for players to try and keep possession in order to dominate the game. It’s also designed to encourage players to ...

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Carlo Ancelotti

Attacking movement in a 4-3-2-1 formation

This session is based on tactical work, movement and patterns of play in the middle and attacking thirds of the field.
It uses a 4-3-2-1 ...

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Darren Kelly

Use of space and switching play

Every session that I do I try to make it realistic to the game. This is a multi-directional session designed to work on the use of space ...

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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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Stuart Pearce

Attacking team shape

This session offers the opportunity to rehearse the shape of a team while attacking from the middle third of the pitch to the opposition’s ...

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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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Andy Leaning

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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