Attacking Sessions

On a UEFA football coaching course from a couple of years ago, Alan Walker the then lead Tutor of Kent Football Association, coached a functional session on combination play to finish.

A fast moving, exciting pass and move football coaching game. There are two teams. One team defends the three mini goals and one team defends the central triangle goal. Play lots of games and reverse the roles of the teams.

Watch the video to understand how you can facilitate this football coaching skill game to improve and develop players ability to run with the ball.

This is a phase of play practice to work on attack v defence with a focus on coaching forwards to play in the hole between the defence and midfield.

This is an effective game related coaching session that encourages players to suck the opposition to the ball with short passing, to then hit a long accurate pass into space created and change the point of the attack.

This is a rotating game designed to help midfield players combine with their strikers in the attacking third. The midfield have to work together for an agreed number of passes, before they can break out and look to combine with and support their forward and try and score. If the opposition win it, they can immediately break out and counter attack by playing through their midfield.

The best players make the best decisions. To make and execute the best decisions, players have to play with their heads up, to be spatially aware and to be able to see what their options are at all times.

This is a fun possession based football coaching drill, that is somewhat like Tiki-taka, the style of play made famous by Barcelona. The players on the outside of the square and the one in the middle of the square have to keep possession away from the defenders in the square. The team with the ball get extra points if they can pass the ball to the golden player in the square or between the defenders. Rotate players often.