There's nothing worse than a defender who dives in willy nilly, without thinking about if it's the right thing to do or not. To help prevent this sort of reckless defending in this session we look at ways you can get your players to hold up their man, forcing them wide, away from the danger area, and keeping the attacker away from the danger zones until the cavalry arrives!
It doesn't matter what level of football you coach, whether it's Serie A or Serie Z, defenders always find it difficult when left in a one on one show down.
To deal with these tricky situations we go mano-a-mano, starting with a drill which sees your defenders shadowing their man as they run laterally, standing with knees bent so that they're ready to change direction at any given moment and then progress through a number of increasingly difficult one vs one drills which will test their ability to defend against an oncoming player when it matters the most!
in more ways than one
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Roughly a fifth of Premier League goals come from set pieces, and the gap between teams who plan their routines and teams who do not has never been wider. Here is how the modern set-piece specialists design attacking corners, free kicks, and throw-ins - and how you can apply their ideas at any level.
The next frontier in football coaching is not physical, it is mental. Cognitive load training - the deliberate use of perception, decision-making and dual-task demands inside football drills - is reshaping how the best academies develop players. Here is what it means and how to use it.
If the last decade taught us about pressing, this one is teaching us about what stands behind it. Rest defence is the shape your team holds while attacking, and it is the difference between dominating a game and getting picked off on the counter.
