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Attacking Principles: Developing options to maintain possession of the ball
Get your players creating more attacking options with clever skills in order to lose and outwit defenders.
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Attacking Principle: Changing pace and direction
Help your players shake off the opposition with a change of pace and direction in this week's session
Ditch Your Opponent By Effective Change Of Pace And Direction
This session works on players attacking capabilities including speed, agility and decision making skills.
Developing evasive attacking skills to beat the defender with pace and angles!
Develop your player's attacking capabilities, to successfully get free from the defender and maintain possession.
Description
Split players into 4s inside a coned area. The attackers (white) start with the ball on the outside of the playing area.
To begin with White 2 feints a movement one way and then sprints in opposite the direction (to begin with use a passive defender).
After white 1 has passed the ball, she then has to do a feint dodge and run in opposite direction to receive the ball.
Try to get 3 / 5 passes in a row before possession changes.
Coaching points
Players need to communicate with one another to beat the defenders.
Encourage players to use the whole space.
Try to get players to 'give and go' - once they pass the ball move to receive the pass (reactions).
The Dodge:
- Feet shoulder width apart (weight evenly distributed)
- Players on their toes - ready to move
- Player takes two steps one way, drops the shoulder, push off the outside foot to change direction and drive onto the ball the opposite way
Drill tags: dodge, dodgem, dodging
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Changing Direction - group practice
Changing Direction
Dodging in 4s
Free to catch
