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Over The Press

Distribution, Passing. About 9 minutes.

Keepers tonight
KKeeper working SServer or team-mate AAttacker KWaiting
The goal kick
  1. Start two or three steps back, at an angle.
  2. Make the last step the long one.
  3. Plant foot beside the ball. Laces under the middle of it.
  4. Lean back a little and follow through high.
How it is set up

Setup. Keeper with the ball in the six-yard box. Two centre-backs split either side of the box. Three pressers on the edge of the box. A target player wide on each side near halfway.

How it runs. The pressers decide before each ball: mark the centre-backs, or stay off. The keeper looks. If a centre-back is free, pass short. If both are marked, the space is behind the pressers: clip or drive the ball over them to a wide target. The target has to control it for the point.

Coaching points

  1. Look short first, then long. If they have sent three to press, somebody further up is free.
  2. Set the ball out of your feet with the first touch, so you can strike through it properly.
  3. Aim for the space in front of the wide player, away from the middle of the pitch.
  4. Height first. The ball has to clear the pressers before anything else matters.

Make it harder. The pressers start moving only as the ball is played back to the keeper. Then the keeper has two touches only.

With 4 keepers. Keeper, one presser, two targets. The keeper plays long every time and the presser chases.