My Coaching

Coaching highlights within my UEFA Youth B Assessment. Focusing on runs beyond, creating space to receive and supporting attacking phases.

Coaching highlights within my UEFA Youth B Assessment. Focusing on overlapping and underlapping in attacking phases, when to invert to receive the ball, and driving to engage opposition and slip passes to teammates.

Coaching highlights within my UEFA Youth B Assessment. Focusing on defending 1v1, body shape to show outside, and positional awareness within the defensive unit.

Coaching highlights within my UEFA Youth B Assessment. Focusing angle of press, blocking passing lanes, and forcing play to make contact.

Unopposed Attacking Patterns of Play - Using The Five Channels

Using the five channels allows players to understand positional discipline and relationism between players. For example, having a left back and left winger on different channels of the pitch allows for rotations to happen and angled passes rather than linear which is easier to press against. Plus from a rest defence point of view it provides clarity for where players would be on the pitch in the off chance that we lose possession. Provides role understanding and responsibility clearer for the players.

Four Defenders and Two Central Midfielders vs Front Three and Two Attacking Midfielders inside a small rondo area. If the team building make 5 passes inside the area, they can then break use their attacking players and full width of the pitch to attack the mini goals.

Once scored into any mini goal, a transition moment will happen so that the other team then attack the big goal, or the mini goals in middle of pitch, depending on the area and situation of the counter attack. Same idea will happen if the ball is regained within the small rondo area.

Can flip teams so that they are doing both roles after a certain number of time.

Attacking and Defending Transition Practice

3 Teams
1 Neutral Central
2 Neutral Wide

Aim is to defend your half and once you regain you find the central neutral player to attack the opposite half. Team that lost possession replaces that half for the next transition phase towards their goal. If the attacking team score, they will get a new ball from coach fed in from the side to attack the opposite direction.

Can change number of players, number of neutrals and the area they are in to adapt practice.

Pressing Movement and Triggers Against a 3-4-3.

Playing in a 5-2-2-1 shape out of possession allows us to minimise space for their key players centrally to receive the ball and cause a threat. If we looks to force wide in a mid-block or low-block shape, to then engage aggressively once the ball goes wide, we can steal and counter attack into wide areas against their backline. It is important to keep play one side once we set the trap to press, as the danger is if the opposition switch to opposite side and create an attacking overload.

Pressing Shape in Open Play Against 4-3-3 and 3-5-2 Formations.

4-3-3 we can ask the opposite wide player be inside the triangle if the ball gets switched to then engage the centre back to steal and attack the goal. If they manage to play through that press, the animation shows the movement of players to cover for the wide player and delay the attack for the opposition.

3-5-2 we look to press aggressively and ask out wide players to show in the pitch rather than wide to their wingback. Rationale behind this is to allow our RB to jump to the wingback in time, as we show them in the pitch and it creates and extra pass before it reaches the wingback. If we can steal centrally to then counter attack, then that is even better.

Variations of Press Depending on How The Opposition Look To Build From Goal Kicks

Some Variations of Build Patterns In Relation to How an Opposition Would Press

How To Build and Progress Play In A 3-4-3 Formation

How To Build In A 3-4-3 Formation From Goal Kicks