Hockey: 3 vs 2 - Floating defender

Why let them have the ball!? Just keep it for yourself instead! Create goal scoring chances from just keeping the ball.

Three players with a ball start in the grid furthest away from the goal with one defender in the first grid and one defender in the second grid.

The practice is for the 3 players to progress through the 2 grids and score a goal.

Defenders can only defend inside their own grid.

Set out 2 grids that are attached by a common line with 3 attackers and 1 defender in each.

3 Players, with one ball, in one grid keep possession of the ball and try to pass the ball to the other three players in the other grid.

Once they have done this the other three players must also try to keep possession in order to once again pass the ball back into the other grid.

The players must start shown in the picture, standing on alternate cones.

The practice becomes live as soon as the first pass is played by the player with the ball on the half way line.

1 has to play the ball to player 2 as the first pass, after this any pass is allowed.

The attack has to take place within the channel of cones.

Defender dribbles with ball into the area in which two attackers are waiting to take the ball (the attackers have to tackle for the ball). On winning the ball the two attackers run out of the area to try and score a goal. The defender can run back and try and stop them. When the attack has finished one of the two previous attackers becomes the defender and starts the exercise again.