U21 Soccer Drills
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Soccer Tactics
5 v 3 + neutral player: Immediate recovery and transition
Possession - Small-sided game to train ball possession and recovery, working on transitions -
Soccer Tactics
6 v 8: defensive compactness - Vincent Kompany
Body shape - High-intensity drill to train the defense in covering space and reaction time -
Soccer Tactics
Back-to-back match
Transitions - Thematic match to practice transitions -
Soccer Technique
Dribbling, passing, and finishing with elements of cognitive skills
Combination play for scoring - Exercise for dribbling, finishing, and shooting on goal with cognitive inputs -
Soccer Tactics
1 vs 1 duels + 3 Neutral players
1v1 - 1 vs 1 situations with three neutral players who perform one-two passes -
Soccer Tactics
Game construction and penetrative runs by the second line
Playing out from the back - Drill to train players to keep ball possession, transitions, and penetrative runs into the box by the second line -
Soccer Tactics
4 v 4 + 2 neutral players: positive transition
Transition - Simplified game to train positive transitions with quick restarts -
Soccer Tactics
Ball possession and search for space: 3 v 3 + 2 neutral players
Creating space - Train how to lose the marker in relation to ball possession and the search for space -
Soccer Tactics
3 v 3 for Transitions
Transition - Small-sided game to improve ball possession and transitions from defensive to offensive phase