Football: Backpass with Pressure

Deal with the back pass with composure and skill to be an outlet for an under pressure defence and clear your lines. But it’s not always as simple as it seems… work on coping with even the trickiest of passes!

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• Use mini goals. Goalkeeeper starts on a cone behind the mini goal.
• Server plays a ball for the mini goal and GK blocks with legs

NOTES

• Do not go down to early but get leg out fast when need arises
• GK to make themselves as wide as possible
• Arms spread but slightly in front of the body

• Mark out a grid with cones. 2 Servers and a Goalkeeper.
• Server 1 and Goalkeeper play passes between them.
• Server 2 is 15yds away from the Goalkeeper area.
• At any time Server 1 can follow the pass into the final grid toward the Goalkeeper. 
• Goalkeeper then must deal with the pass and aim to pass the ball to Server 2 on the end line

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• Goalkeeper steps away from cone comes through the gate receives a ball into hands
• Returns to server then gets a low shot into dive close to body
• Get into set position initially then step forward into low dive to save before cones in advance of initial gate

Notes:

• Get the step in if required
• If serve close too the body collapse legs and get hands to the ball in front of the body
• Dive forward this called 'Attacking the dive'

 

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M grip: 

• Fingers spread and facing down.
• Almost making a "V" with the hand. 
• Thumbs facing out.
• Let the ball hi the gloves and then scoop the ball up.

W grip:

• Make a "W" with the two thumbs- thumbs not actually touching.
• Fingers to the sky.