Handball: 3 vs 3 - Defence

Building a team on a solid defence is what all the champions do. Create a defence that is going to shut out the opposition to give your attack the freedom to play.

The blue team (back court players) are attacking and are passing the ball along the line, looking to find a chink in the defence so that they can pass the ball to either of the two forward green players (pivots).

Meanwhile the blue defending players must work together and make good defending decisions. When an attacker comes forward a defender must step forward to mark the back court players while another defender moves across the cover the pivot.

The first player waiting in the line passes to blue one on the side of the court and moves forward to receive the return pass.

At this point dependin on where the blue player has received the pass the red defenders should communicate and decide which of them is best placed to come out and defend against the oncoming attacker.

The 'spare' defender should position themsleves beside the green player, ready to intercept the pass from the attacking player.

The two blue players stood on the wings of the court both have several balls at their feet and take it in turns to throw the ball into the central player. Once they have past the ball into the middle-man they should drive forwards, ready to receive the return pass, pivot and try to feed the ball into the red player on their side.

Defenders must communicate amongst themselves to decide on which of them goes forwards to close down the oncoming player and which is remaining to cover the man on the edge of the D.

The 4 red defenders need to prevent the 3 oncoming blue attackers from finding a way through the defence, whilst also blocking off the through ball to blue 4 who is waiting for the ball on the edge of the goal area.