Excellent drills, very detailed videos. Useful site for my U15 boys team.
What are the best practices in training players (female) to move as a team on the pitch, and to create overload for example, without weakening defence, especially on the axle of the field?
how do you stop your team over crowding in the circle? what drills or game situations could i use at training?
Hi can you help me setting a defence against a team playing 2 centre halves. My team plays conventional style 5321 . Thanks
Hi, last season after asking here, we played the 4-3-3 formation. We took the field in this formation and played the whole game this way. This worked really well for us last season, we got promoted and finished 3rd in our new grade. However we came unstuck in the semi finals where the team we were playing identified what we were doing and played the same formation against us in the second half, leaving us unable to make any inroads for the remainder of the game.Our team is from a small school, made up of year 7-13 boys playing against larger schools of year 9-13 boys, though i would guess we played against teams at the older end of the range. We can't match others teams in age & size or depth of experience yet, so we must play smarter.What are possible alternative formations and how would the team identify the need to switch between formations?David Smith
Would you say switching it around to a 1-2-3 would make for better attacking formations?
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