Stay with your opponent
Key Objectives
The defender must react quickly to the attacker’s movements. Use of arms and body are essential to stopping the attacker.
Technical/Coaching Points
Using body to block the attacker
Body shape
Awareness
Agility and changes in direction
Organisation
Set the players up in 2 teams, 1 player from each team on either side of the goal with balls.
How to play
In pairs the attacking player has to try to lose the defender in order to receive a pass from their team mate next to the goal and get a shot away.
The defender has to stay with the opponent to prevent them from being able to receive or if they do receive the pass then prevent the shot.
Rotate between attacking and defending so each team gets equal chances at both
Progression
If your plays find this too easy or too difficult, you could progress the game in the following ways:
Put a time limit on
Introduce a maximum number of touches before getting a shot away