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Encourage your team to constantly switch the focus of the attack from right to left and vice versa in this four goal game. Quick passes to switch play are used to create the space to dribble in 1v1 and 2v1 situations.
Overview
Encourage your team to constantly switch the focus of the attack from right to left and vice versa in this four goal game. Quick passes to switch play are used to create the space to dribble in 1v1 and 2v1 situations.
Set up
- Pitch 40yds x 30yds
- Four mini goals
What you get your players to do
Each team is given two mini goals to defend and two mini goals to attack.
Both teams must try to use quick passing interchanges in order to create space to score.
Rules
- The game is played continuously for ten minutes
- A goal is scored when a pass/shot is made into one of the opponent’s goals
- After a goal is scored the opposing team starts with the ball on its goal line
Development/progression
One touch finish – to increase the difficulty of this game you can impose a rule where players are only allowed to score using a first time pass/shot into their opponent’s mini goal.
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