Soccer drill: position play with switching
Suitable for the following techniques: attack
Position play with switching
Game principle.
- Switching gears as quickly as possible is the focus of this exercise.
- As a coach you can of course always choose where you put the emphasis in this exercise: switching to ball possession or switching after ball loss.
The exercise form
- The red side plays in the red square a positional game 7 vs 5.
- When yellow captures the ball, the player of the yellow side plays a fellow player in the yellow square.
- The 5 yellow players from the red square plus 5 random red players move to the yellow square.
- Switching, in other words. In the yellow square the positional play then continues 7 against 5, until red captures the ball and plays it back to the red square.
- Then the players switch back to the red square.
Coaching
Apart from whether the positional play goes well, the main issue is of course the switching. Therefore:
- Switchover to ball possession: is the game actually moved to the other square as soon as possible?
- Switchover after ball loss: can the pass to the other square still be prevented? By putting immediate pressure on the ball
- Switching after ball loss: if the game cannot be prevented, do 2 players switch to the other square a.s.a.p.?