WORKING ON DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION - FULL SESSION

"A good attack win games. A good defense wins championships"

This well know football quote pretend to show the importance of develop a good team organization in the moment we don´t have the ball.

So, this time Coach ID team has prepared a full training session using Coach ID app (https://app.coachidapp.com) regarding defensive organization. This 4 exercises have a natural progression between them, starting from small principles/behaviours and finishing with a "big picture" of what we expect from the next match - how we will stop our opponent and how we can hurt him.

Introductory note: In this hypothetical scenario we will play an away match against a very good team that plays in a 4-4-2 diamond shape system. The opponent is very strong building offensive actions through the middle and exploring depth through movement of its strikers. Some exercises in this training session will take this into account.

Description:

3 sets of different rondos. Focus on defensive behaviour:

1-Two players in the miedllle need to recover the ball to get out. Always go to defend the players who missed the pass and the previous one (SOCIO-AFECTIVE STRUCTURE);

2- If the inside players take a ball (pass) between them, they will be an aditional time in the miedlle (DEFENSIVE COVERAGE);

3- If the players defending recover the ball they should try to score in two small goals 8OFFENSIVE TRANSITION). When this happens, the outside players must do 10 squats

Key points:
- Organized pressing
- Defensive coverage
- Offensive transition

Duration: 3x5' | Players: 19 (2 spaces of 7v2)

Description: Two squares with 4 players and 2 target men outside as references. Team in possession must quickly move the ball till find space to connect with the striker. Everytime they success they get a point.
The main objective of the exercise it´s to avoid that situation. The focus it´s on defensive coverage and not leave spaces inside.
In the 2nd phase, one defensive player can overrun the other space and press the opponents building up.

Duration: 3x4'

Players: 2x10

Description: Ball possession exercise with both teams organized by position. The objective of the team with the ball it´s to make a pass between the small gates. Team who´s defending must try avoid that, keeping the players close and starting the defensive process FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE.

Duration: 3x5'

Players: 20

Description: We are playing on a low block and the strategy it´s to regain the ball and use our wingers in the transition moment. If we can do it, another offensive player can join by the midlle and quickly we create a 3v2 situation (+GK)

CP: Close the inside pass channels; control the depth (GK awareness); Transition through the sides; fastly take advantage of numerical superiority to score

Duration: 2x8'

Players: 20 + 2 Gk

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