Session - Possession and spacial awareness
The first session of the season for our newly formed under 9's. A simple session that comprised a skills based warm up, some 2 v 2 progressions followed by a possesion game and concluding with a small sided game
Observations
During 1 of the drills - 7 v 3 possession, 4 passes or a 1/2 to score a goal - . A systematic problem occurred hence feedback needed to be at a group level rather than at an individual level. The problem was centred on players in possession only utilising short passing , thus causing the team in possesion to compress the playing area, this made it easy for the defenders to win the ball back.
When the ball went of play we used the dead time to ask a group question - Do the team in possession want to make the pitch big or small -BIG was the unified response - WHY - more time and space for the man on the ball and the defence have to turn and chase the ball, the children knew the answer but what followed were repeats of the same problem. so despite knowing the answer they were unable to implement the solution
Our response was to introduce a conditioned drill that caused transfer of play from 1 side of the pitch to the other.
Enjoyable session, with deeper insights to the player development process
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