Warm-up: Possession with numerical advantage and defensive pressing
By creating a numerical advantage situation for the attackers in a small space, your players work on both game awareness, ball movement, and ball retention (attack) as well as coordinated pressing (defenders). Drill recommended for your U17 players
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Mark out 2 zones of 20m per side (the separation area + an adjacent equivalent area). Form 2 teams of 6. Only 6 against 4 players can play in one zone.
The team with the numerical advantage (red) must try to keep possession against the 5 defenders (blue). If the blues manage to recover the ball,...
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