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BLACKBURN ROVERS Sam PENALTY BOX PRECISION: MAIN SESSION Allardyce SETUP Penalty box AREA precision Final third Overview: EQUIPMENT This is a pure Supply of balls, full- size goal, six-a-side technical session that goals, cones 1 works on fi nishing NUMBER OF PLAYERS and movement. We 14 (12 outfi eld, will practise this at 2 goalkeepers) various intensities before taking what What do I get the has been learned into players to do? a game situation. This session is to be KEY Ball As attacking drills go, movement worked at relaxed, half Player this is an important movement The ball is served to the and full pace for three Dribble fi rst red player, who shoots one because it helps minutes at a time. At then runs back to the start. players become the edge of the penalty accustomed to box, create three lines attacking the goal of four players facing from different angles, the goal - one at each therefore making it side of the box (red and game realistic. white teams) and the It is a session we use other in the middle regularly at (yellow team). Set up Blackburn Rovers, cones around the area 2 and is one that always as obstacles. produces good From the fi rst line, a results. It was red player receives a implemented pass from the coach perfectly in the positioned on the Carling Cup win penalty spot, and against Norwich City shoots at goal. He then in August when KEY spins around his cone Ball El-Hadji Diouf movement ready to lay a diagonal Player completed his hat- movement Next, the yellow player pass. Dribble weaves through the cones trick by running and takes a shot. across the box to The coach now serves head home Morten to the fi rst yellow Gamst Pedersen’s player, who shoots. ball in from the left. This man runs behind the line of white players and down the wing where he is served another ball to be crossed to either the “We look for near or far post. 3 technical The red player lays a diagonal pass into excellence an advancing white in shooting player, who shoots fi rst time at goal. – the type of Red and white now

shot, and the take up position KEY Ball around the six-yard movement ability to hit Player box looking to convert movement Red feeds a ball across the Dribble box for white to fi re at goal, the target yellow’s cross with a as yellow recovers to the each time.” shot or header. wing.

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At the end of the move, each player retreats to the back of their Sam Allardyce station. Restart using BLACKBURN ROVERS the second player in Sam Allardyce joined each line. 4 Blackburn Rovers in What are the key December 2008 having things to look previously managed for technically/ Newcastle United, tactically? Bolton Wanderers, Blackpool, Notts We look for technical County and Limerick. excellence in shooting – the type of shot, In his fi rst season at KEY Ball Ewood Park, he guided and the ability to hit movement Player Rovers to Premier the target each time. movement A new ball is fed on the wing Dribble as red and white attack the League safety, and We are expecting six-yard area. last year came close players to score with to a Carling Cup fi nal all four opportunities. appearance, but The ability to make Blackburn lost an intelligent runs is enthralling semi-fi nal obviously vital, as is to Aston Villa over two legs. In the Barclays care and attention over Premier League, they the delivery of a pass fi nished 10th. or cross. But it is the coach’s job to get the Before Blackburn, it 5 was Allardyce’s eight- point across that, in any year reign at Bolton that situation, technique placed him in such high should not be rushed. regard in the football How would you put world. The pinnacle of this into a game his time at the Reebok situation? Stadium was bringing We play 6v6 with two UEFA Cup football to KEY Ball Lancashire after a sixth- goalkeepers in a 50x40 movement Player place fi nish in 2004/05. yard area. There is movement The move is fi nished with a Dribble header or a shot. The Trotters also made no pressure from it to the Carling Cup fi nal opposition players in in 2004. In total, ‘Big the shooting session, Sam’ has taken charge so it’s important of over 700 competitive that the small-sided matches. game is a live and As a player, Allardyce pressured situation. was a tall and imposing We look for replication defender who played of the technical for a number of sides play, fi nishing, and including Millwall, movement, from the Huddersfi eld Town and earlier session. Preston North End. We play for 15 minutes before going back to the practice area where we attack on the opposite fl ank, before returning for another small-sided game.

KEY Ball movement Player Rehearsed running, movement Dribble crossing and fi nishing techniques are played out in a 6v6 game.

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