Tactical match with both teams positioned in their usual formation: the drill focuses on enhancing defensive skills in opposition to short crosses.

Supplementary proposal to enhance basic individual skills (passing, receiving, shooting) within specific game structures.

Supplementary proposal to enhance basic individual skills (passing, receiving, shooting) within specific game structures.

This exercise trains midfielders to attack defensive actions within the penalty area and finalize on goal.

Coaching points: defensive positioning, ball recover in case of numerical inferiority and maintaining possession of the ball in reduced spaces.

This exercise is designed to train different aspects and improves performing maneuvered build-up, counterattacks and transitions in a highly specific way.

Combined actions train specific individual skills (in this case: passing, receiving, shooting) enabling players to practice and refine the basics of most frequent game play situations.

This drill is designed to improve performing transitions. The team that intercepts the ball has to consolidate possession of the ball itself before thrusting the attacking move. The team that lost the ball has to press.

This exercise works on pressing and intercepting the rebound: fundamental skills, especially when it's complicated to develop an elaborated maneuver.

This drill is designed to enhance the ability of the team in possession to take advantage of its numerical superiority in the midfield area to execute envelopments. Defenders work on intercepting and vertical exits.