Football: Passing and Receiving

The ?modern way? is to play out from the back. To be able to do it successfully though, you need your defenders to be comfortable on the ball when looking to pass, dribble and scan the pitch.

Develop your players understanding of space and how their movement (or even lack of at times) can create space to play in the midfield.

Your players should always have two passing outlets! Work on your players' triangle passing to help them attack and go forward

Straight forward passing and moving drill with only two touches on the ball.

The blue players off the ball can only receive the ball at one of the four cones in each corner of the area and the red player is trying to intercept the ball.

In both the wide channels put one defender and two attackers.

Both attackers in the same rectangle must touch the ball before trying to pass to the other attackers.

However the ball is not allowed to touch the floor in the minefield area (middle box).

If the pass doesn't find its intended recipient because it falls short or is intercepted the player who passed the ball swaps over with the defender in their area.

Four players with one ball can only be outside the square of cones. Only one defender is allowed inside the square. The players on the outside have to pass the ball through the square to score a goal. The ball must remain on the floor. The player in the middle tries to intercept the ball. Players should move the ball around at speed to move the defender out of position and create pass to pass across the square.

Four players are placed in a grid next to another four players.

As soon as the ball is given to one group of four a player from the opposite four must enter the grid too win the ball back.

Once the ball is won the defender plays the ball back into their own grid and the roles are reversed.