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Practice 2: Pressing triggers
Encourage defenders to coordinate their pressing and screening/sliding efforts
WHY USE IT
This practice encourages defenders to coordinate their pressing and screening/sliding efforts.
Set-up
Mark out an area relative to the age, ability and number of your players. Divide the area into two equal squares with a narrow channel in between. Divide players into three equal teams.
HOW TO play
One team starts in each half, with the third team (defenders) starting in the middle channel. One team starts with the ball and aim to make five successful passes before transferring to the team in the other half. The defending team can send two players into the area to try and win possession, with the remaining defenders staying in the central channel to block through balls.
ADAPTATIONS & progressions
Progress so as teams can make any number of passes before transferring possession. Every three passes, the defence can send an additional player into the area to press.
COACHING POINTS
Can the defenders use their body shape to force attacking play into a particular area? Can those waiting to press read the triggers for the switch of play, so they can be pressing the receiving team on their first touch?
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Players are in three equal teams. There is one team in each half, with the third team in the middle channel
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The team that starts with the ball aims to make five passes before transferring to the team in the other half
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Two defenders from the middle team press, while the others block through balls
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