Defensive Channelling
Objective – Teach the attacker to attack at pace while the defender channels
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- Attacker starts on red cone.
- On a whistle the attacker looks to dribble the ball past the line of orange markers before turning towards goal and attempting to score.
- The defender starts on the blue cone without a ball and, starting at the same time, has to run past the line of blue markers before turning to defend the goal.
- Points are awarded for scoring a goal.
- Adjust the distance between the cones so the defender gets to the top cone – just behind the attacker
Notes:
- Attacking the circle is a way of showing how important channelling attackers away from the goal can be.
- The diagram shows the practise set up for attacking from the right hand side, it can be mirrored on the left side.
- Move the location of the cones and “throw downs” around the area so challenging the attacker and defender to come at if from different angles
- Use a part of the pitch that represents situations so it is realistic
- Do not dive
- Channel or dictate and deny
- Swap sides
- Increase the number of players per side to encourage teams to find creative ways to find space to play into (i.e. play 2 v 2)
- Give a time limit to score to incentivise attacking at pace.
- Emphasise channelling the attacker away from goal by giving a bonus point if the attacking side enters the circle through the centre third of the D
- Give a bonus point for winning a penalty corner to encourage defenders to tackle outside of the D. Give the defenders a point for shave tackles
- Add a second defender to teach “double teaming”
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