Football: Backpass with Pressure

Deal with the back pass with composure and skill to be an outlet for an under pressure defence and clear your lines. But it’s not always as simple as it seems… work on coping with even the trickiest of passes!

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• Use mini goals. Goalkeeeper starts on a cone behind the mini goal.
• Server plays a ball for the mini goal and GK blocks with legs

NOTES

• Do not go down to early but get leg out fast when need arises
• GK to make themselves as wide as possible
• Arms spread but slightly in front of the body

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• Goalkeeper steps away from cone comes through the gate receives a ball into hands
• Returns to server then gets a low shot into dive close to body
• Get into set position initially then step forward into low dive to save before cones in advance of initial gate

Notes:

• Get the step in if required
• If serve close too the body collapse legs and get hands to the ball in front of the body
• Dive forward this called 'Attacking the dive'

 

6 players work in an area approximately 30 meters wide, divided in two with a third boxed area at one end.

Red team play a 3 v 1 inside the first area but need to look for early deep ball to blue (3) in smaller coned area.

The Blue team has also got a player (2) in the centre zone this player can not enter the area where the reds are keeping possession.

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• Goalkeeper starts with the ball and throws it to the attacker
• Attacker must take a touch and try and get into the end zone to score a goal