Exercise ran by Matthijs, Robert will be on the side to give individual feedback (After an attack all players will run past Robert so he can pull out girls that need more tactics.
Starting with a ball from Matthijs the girls will play a 1v2, the player with the ball (blue) will try and keep the ball in the box for as long as possible. Once the 2 players (red) get the ball they will pass the ball deep for a 3v2.
Make sure that the two defending use the three stages from before.
Without the counter attacks try to:
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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