14 players are used for the practice, arranged into an 8v8 game: 4 versus 4 in the central area and two versus one, in favour of the defending team, in each end zone. The attacking team should be encouraged to develop their passing and support play in the central zone, looking for opportunities to play forward to the lone attacker and create goal scoring opportunities.
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