Pressure on the ball – encourage a mistake
Low and mobile body position / good footwork
- Defenders
- Pressure on the ball
- Do not dive
- Delay, Deny Dictate/Channel
- Defend L2G (Line to goal)
- Approach the tackle as high up the pitch as poss
Attackers
- Vary speed
- Dummy
- 3D
- Drag and accelerate
- Use team talk time to ask players for their tactics (as a team) and the skills that work well.
- Get focus and quality in team talks by scoring the team talks out of five. Add these points to the team totals. Be sure to justify your decision, perhaps with phrases like: ‘great listening’ ‘everybody contributed’ ‘great focus on the game’