Phase 2: Finish The Attack
Attacking, in the context of coaching football, refers to the strategies and techniques employed by a team to score goals against the opposing team. It involves creating scoring opportunities, using effective passing and dribbling, making runs into space, and taking shots on goal.
Attacking also involves coordination and teamwork among the players to break down the opposition’s defence and create scoring chances.
Key Principles
– Types of pass
– Weight of pass
– Passing disguise
– Movements, speed, and timing of runs
– Variety of runs
– Types of Finishing
– Combinations (1-2’s)
– Overlaps/Underlaps
– 3rd Man Runs’s
– Penetration
– Types of movements
– Decision Making (Shots/ Crosses)
Warm Up (10 Minutes)
Physiological Warm Up
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Technical Practice (20 Minutes)
Angled Passing & Finishing
This session is great for building up the players understanding of how to move off players to receive and combine with others.
The session starts by the top player playing into the furthest central player who passes either left or right. The ball travels around the outside until it gets to the top corner players who then combine with the deepest central player who receives to finish at goal.
Possession Based Practice 1 (20 Minutes)
Crossing & Finishing Practice
This session is excellent for developing your players ability to deliver effectively from wide areas as well as your strikers ability to finish first time. With the concentration on the teams wide players the strikers development becomes a bi-product.
The session starts with a combination around the deep mannequin. The wide player then runs onto a through ball down the channel and then delivers into the box for the striker to finish. Having an object (mannequin’s or small goals) for the wide player to beat will provide a further realistic challenge.
Possession Based Practice 2 (20 Minutes)
Combination Play
This session helps support the players ability to link in wide areas as well as central play. Encourage the players to play on limited touches and build through, round or over the defence where needed.
The session will always start from the goalkeeper who can distribute to their team mates in any position. Only starting restriction is that the wide channels can only have a 1v1 between the two fullbacks at any time.
Game Related Practice (20 Minutes)
3 Team Game
A great game that covers so many attributes, depending on your principles depends on what you can develop. This will and can all be developed alongside the psychological factors.
You can choose from several different challenges to get the most out of your session, adapt the distances to bring out specific philosophies.
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