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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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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 ...

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Jesse Marsch

Counter-Pressing

This session is focused on our ability to counter-press. This is an essential behaviour in our game model and it’s independent of formati...

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Rob Edwards

Pressing triggers when out of possession

This session focuses on pressing triggers and shows players how and when to press in certain scenarios from a compact shape.

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Tony Mowbray

Pressing with team connectivity to score more

This session is all about encouraging the different units of a team to connect together to win the ball back from an opponent and create ...

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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 sh...

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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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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 ag...

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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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Darren Ferguson

Defending and attacking when overloaded

A progressive, multi-directional drill, this session is based around players attacking quickly whilst recognising and exploiting the space ...

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Pep Guardiola

Creating and finishing

This session is all about creating and finishing from a variety of distances and positions in and around the box. The majority of chances ...

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Micky Mellon

Playing into the strikers

This session is all about working an overload to create opportunities to play directly into the feet of the strikers. It also encourages ...

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Mark Bowen

Defending 1v1 and against overloads

This training session is aimed at educating defenders in the skillsets, communication ability and decision making needed when they are goal-...

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Darren Moore

Counter-attacking

This session is aimed at counter-attacking the opposition, either from deep or from the middle third. It also focuses on exploiting ...

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Kenny Jackett

Counter-attacking

This session is all about encouraging players to counter-attack with speed and precision. Counter-attacking is a big part of the modern ...

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Jack Ross

Improving the defence

This training session gives your players the opportunity to rehearse different kinds of defending, setting up situations where they are: ...

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Chris Wilder

Pressing to win the ball

In a lot of the sessions we run at Sheffield United, we want the players to press and win the ball back as quickly as possible. It’s a big ...

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Pep Guardiola

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Melanie Reay

Effective pressing

This session is all about getting the ball back as quickly as we can. We start with an activity focused on pressing in small groups to set ...

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Martin Allen

Forward play in and around the box

This session is about creative, quick and inventive forward play in and around the penalty box.

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David Kemp

Defensive headers

This session examines the skill and art of defensive headers. It’s a simple exercise, but practice makes permanent.

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Scott Parker

Finding the third man

This session is about encouraging players to work in threes, using passing combinations to find the third man free of his defender. This ...

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Graham Potter

Defending in a mid block

This session is all about defending in a mid block and making a team hard to play through. It will teach players to work as a block and it ...

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Gary Rowett

Defending the danger zone

This session is designed to work on defending in the ‘danger zone’, but it also works on attacking in the danger zone too. Studies have ...

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Nigel Pearson

Transition from defence to attack

The idea behind this session is to run drills that manufacture situations similar to those that occur during a real match. This makes ...

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Shelley Kerr

Preparation for defending

This training plan is designed to focus on defending against an opponent whose key threats are identified and incorporated within the ...

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