yello defender passes to blue attacker, once attackers cross into coned off area (attacking zone) defenders then close down attackers creating 3v2 situation, with support defender coming back from outside attacking zone(player on back cone behind attackers goal. attackers then try to score. if defenders win posession theythen try to score in attackers goals, then start again
try to encourage diagonal runs from attackers.
encourage attackers to try and exploit 3v2 before support def gets back
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