The arena: protecting your goal with defensive duels work
How to work on defensive duels? Here you will have the opportunity to tackle numerous defensive situations in 1v1 then 2v2 from different angles. A rather intense exercise!
Description
Mark out a zone of about 25x30m in front of the goal and then place 2 cones on each width (see animation). Create groups of 4 attackers and then place the defensive players on the side of the goal. They will work one after the other.
The exercise will proceed as follows:
1. The 1st attacker wil...
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