Game starts with 5 v 1 Team of 5 starts with the ball and has to score against the one defender. Player with ball is encourgaed to avoid contcact but draw the defender and pass to team mate in space. The player that scores then joins the defender to make it 4 v 2 and the game retstarts. Contiue as before until the game becomes 3 v 3
Attacking players using the extra men to draw and pass and exploit space Defenders to work on DRIFT defence working against an overlap Players to continue to draw and pass even when its 3 v 3
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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