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Keep up the good work Eric!
I’d suggest that you use your keeper as a pivot player to relieve pressure… if you cannot 100% for sure play backwards to your CenterBack, then use your GK as that pivot player. If your team has quick thought process (movement into correct space, decision making on/off on the ball), you realistically will have numbers up (+2-3 players) when trying to switch the point of attack through the back five. The holding/defensive mid also can drop off to create more time and space for themselves, while also, if possible, receiving the ball facing towards goal.
A few reasons why your team gave up “through balls”:
1. Giving the ball away when not under pressure (your players would be gaining width and depth, but ball is given away — leaving players “out of position”). Stress decision making…
2. No immediate ball pressure after the ball was given away. If there is immediate pressure, vision of opposition is greatly diminished
Hope continued progress and success to you and your teams!
Excellent points Ryan-
Update on the move to 11 v 11-
Were at the tail end of the multi sports season so were having frequent misses of practice(especially with the back 4 players) so we have spent much of our time on the following tasks-
A) combination play patterns- faster decision making on where to go with the ball- several need players in the mix
B) Mid field decision making- Our mids were making the following mistakes that really hurt us
a- holding onto the ball too long
b- not taking the easy pass but looking to thread the needle
c- poor collectionAs Ryan pointed out that decision making and the lack of fast pressure on the ball has led to our through ball goals. We’re addressing mid field decision making, but need to do a better job of bringing back our aggressive identity in transition to defense. We have not worked on that enough and it shows. We have only mildly touched on the coordinated pressure piece and while I felt we were solid at that aspect at the end of our 8 v 8 season the move to 11 has created some paralysis through analysis.
Update- Won our last friendly 5-1 vs. mid to lower level flight I team
Playing out from the back- The first 20 minutes of the game we look pretty good in this area. Good ball movement, speed of play is improving and were making the opponent run. Im not sure if its fatigue or the pressure of a missed touch or two but it gets poorer as the game progresses and becomes much more direct. One player in particular is passing without looking so we need to work on his decision making not just to move the ball around based on the patterns we practice.
Organized pressure- Its has some life. We are beginning to take better angles and players are trusting their teammates. We made things difficult on our opponent to play our from the back (not sure if they work on that much anyhow) and made them play in the air long. Only trouble was late movement from our outside backs to the opponents outsides mids and they occasionally had time to turn and create.
Combinations- Also is starting to show some life. When things dont go as planned we slow down a bit on our decision making. Our target forward turns too much and should be working combos with the outside mids/forwards and that needs to be addressed as the outsides are making quality runs but not getting rewarded for their efforts.
On a good note- ZERO fast breaks on penetrating passes as we were not losing the ball in the wrong parts of the field and our defense was getting compact.
We need to work on defenders tracking back when beaten as we are way too slow in the arena.
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