Overview
- Built for youth teams, academies, and clubs across the board
- Runs with two attackers and one defender
- Field size: 30m x 40m (adjust to fit your space)
- Builds individual ball mastery and the read to beat a defender, both at once
Objectives
- Get players in the habit of keeping a foot near the ball through every short pass
- Sharpen their read on the defender so they pick the right moment to attack
- Move the defender first, then find your best lane to take him on
- Build the mindset to react and recover the second the ball is lost
Setup
Two attackers combine off short passes to move the defender, then go 1v1 once they’ve got control of the ball.
1) The two attackers (#9 and #11) start 5m away from #10
2) #10 plays it in to one of them
3) The receiver moves the defender around while they keep trading short passes
4) The moment a player reads “this is it,” whoever has the ball attacks 1v1
5) The defender reads the movement, closes down fast, and looks to win it back
6) Rotate once the attackers score or the defender wins it back
See the coaching points & progressions
Visualize the movement on an online tactics board,
and share it with your players and staff.
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