Exploiting Overloads

 A Coaching Playbook Featured Session

Practice Type: Tactical Practice

Learning Objective: Creating Numerical Advantages (Overloads)

Session Outcome: Players exploit overloads during attacking transitions.

Layout

• Age: U14s - Adults

• Number of players: 8 - 16

• Duration: 15 - 20 mins 

• Equipment: Balls, Mini-Goals, Cones, Bibs

• Organisation: Quarter-pitch or Half-pitch

• Description: 1vs1 - 1vs2 - 3vs2 - 3vs4 

Session Plan

• Coaching Points: Support the ball, Move defenders and Exploit the spare player

• Coaching challenge: Attack through the wide areas

• Common Error: Players shoot from poor positions

• Progressions: Play without artificial overloads

• Regression: Increase attacking numbers

• Coach Intervention Questions: Is there a better option? Who could attack the space?

Tactics Board Breakdown