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This small-side game helps you to improve the vision and awareness of your players when they are looking to pass a through ball behind the defence. Passes of this type help to create more goalscoring chances for your strikers.

Coaching Objectives

Players must learn to play with their heads up or to look up as often as possible. This helps them to spot openings to play through passes.

Communication to team mates and good passes into space for them to run onto is key to this game.

Players out of possession must be constantly on the move to create space to receive a pass.

Drill Setup

  • 25 Mins
  • 10 Players
  • 2 Goals
  • 4 Bibs
  • 60 x 30 y

What the Players Do

Use an area 60 x 30 yards split by 6 mannequins into three zones. The middle zone is where the focus of the game takes place. Start a 3v3 in the middle zone with one defender in the outside zone…