Creating Chances

 A Coaching Playbook Featured Session

Practice Type: Technical Practice

Learning Objective: Creating Chances and Combination Play

Session Outcome: Players create more quality goalscoring opportunities through movement and decision making.

Layout

• Age: U12s - Adults

• Number of players: 4 - 8

• Duration: 8 - 20 mins

• Equipment: Balls, Goal

• Organisation: Half-pitch

• Description: 5 Vs 1 (2-3 Vs GK)

Session Plan

• Coaching Points: Timing of runs and Quality final pass

• Coaching challenge: Attack through the wide areas

• Common Error: Final pass lacks quality

• Progressions: Add scoring zones

• Regression: Increase attacking numbers

• Coach Intervention Questions: Can you stay composed? Who can attack the space?

Tactics Board Breakdown 

Real World Examples