A quick and effective counter-attack can catch even the best of teams unaware, often with devastating effect. But how do you stop a very strong counter-attacking team side?
To help your team find the answer to this question this week's session provides plenty of opportunity for your team to practice reacting to a turnover, trying to hold up play and minimize the attacking threat from the opposition.
Turnover of the ball can be very dangerous. However, by using the drills and exercises in this Session you will be able to simulate losing possession - improving your attacking and defensive play in one comprehensive session.
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Roughly a fifth of Premier League goals come from set pieces, and the gap between teams who plan their routines and teams who do not has never been wider. Here is how the modern set-piece specialists design attacking corners, free kicks, and throw-ins - and how you can apply their ideas at any level.
The next frontier in football coaching is not physical, it is mental. Cognitive load training - the deliberate use of perception, decision-making and dual-task demands inside football drills - is reshaping how the best academies develop players. Here is what it means and how to use it.
If the last decade taught us about pressing, this one is teaching us about what stands behind it. Rest defence is the shape your team holds while attacking, and it is the difference between dominating a game and getting picked off on the counter.
