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Description
A defensive session used to help players learn different roles when defending as part of a unit.
Key Factors:
- When to press/when to hold.
- React quickly to triggers for when to press eg. bad touch/pass.
- Try not to let balls be played through your defensive unit.
- Press and cover.
- Try to stop them playing forward if possible.
- Communicate with your teammates.
Organisation:
- Players set up in a 20x40 yards area with a 5 yard zone at each end.
- Ball is played in to either team and they must attack they opposition end zone.
- To score a point, the ball must either be dribbled in to the end zone, or passed to the target man, who stays in the end zone.
- When the ball is dead, both teams return to their end and the next three come in.