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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STEVENAGE Graham SHOOTING FROM DISTANCE: MAIN SESSION Westley SET-UP Shooting AREA from Two penalty areas distance pushed together, with cones laid diagonally Overview: from each goalpost to This is a session the halfway point of designed to improve the touchline on each side shooting ability, 1 EQUIPMENT particularly for midfi eld players Goals, balls, cones in and around the NUMBER OF PLAYERS edge of the penalty 12 (6v6, 4 players and a keeper in the box. The ability to defensive half, contribute a good 1 player in the quantity of goals is attacking half) an important aspect KEY Ball movement Stage one: yellow receives of any midfi elder’s What do I get the Player movement a pass and shoots from game. At Stevenage players to do? Dribble within his own half we rely a lot on this We play 6v6 with contribution, and each team attacking in a recent league a goal – play begins match against with the keeper who Rotherham United, must roll the ball to John Mousinho fi red a player in his half. In home from outside stage one there is only the area in style to one player forward 2 salvage a point at one in the attacking half. of the League Two Players cannot cross promotion favourites. the halfway line We play three stages and must construct of the session for passing moves to the eight minutes each point where a player then conclude with takes a shot from a 12-minute small- inside his own half. KEY Ball sided game. The lone forward in the movement Player Stage two: with an movement attacking half needs to Dribble overload in each half, be alert to any rebound defenders and attackers work for position and opportunities. space. In stage two, three players and a goalkeeper are in the defensive half, with two in the attacking “The ability half. A shot must still to be able to be dispatched from 3 the defensive half, contribute but the two attacking a good players must work to draw defenders quantity of across and obscure the goals is an keeper’s line of vision, whilst continuing to KEY important stay alert to rebound Ball movement Player Stage three: long-range aspect of any opportunities. movement shots are combined with Dribble In stage three, we passing moves into the midfielder’s progress to chances opposition half game.” in and around the goal 10 JANUARY 2011 www.elitesoccercoaching.net IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SHOOTING FROM DISTANCE: PROGRESSION where the ball can be passed into the attacking half. Graham Westley Players will always have an overload in STEVENAGE one half or the other. Graham Westley is To make the most of the popular, forward- this session, they are thinking manager of encouraged to take npower League Two shooting opportunities side Stevenage. 1 and look for quick play The 42-year-old is in and around the box now in his second and most successful spell in order to create goal scoring chances. in charge at Broadhall The yellow team builds Way having secured the What are the key KEY from the back Ball club promotion to the things to look movement Player Football League for the for technically/ movement fi rst time last season, as tactically? Dribble they strode to the Blue In this session, we Square Conference title in style. look for players with vision to be able to Westley, who is known for his motivational create space by using team-talks, has quick interchange taken charge of over play. Technical ability 400 games for the is important given the Hertfordshire outfi t, limited space available, plus Farnborough while players receiving Town, Rushden the ball on the half 2 & Diamonds and turn need to be aware Kettering Town. He of all forward options won Stevenage the FA around them, whether Trophy at Wembley in that’s a pass to a team- 2009. mate or a shot. The ball must be laid Westley had a long KEY back from the fi nal third How would you put Ball before a shot can be playing career in movement Player taken London and the Home this into a game movement Counties, turning out for situation? Dribble the likes of QPR, Barnet, To put this into a game Gillingham, Wycombe situation we set up an Wanderers, plus a host area of 54x30 yards, of non-league clubs. with the length divided into three 18-yard zones. Play a standard 9v9 game, with the goalkeeper beginning play from the back. Ensure that goal “We look for scoring only comes as a result of a shot from 3 players with the middle zone, and vision to be only after play has been built into the end zone able to create and the ball laid back. The keeper saves but space by KEY the rebound fi nds the Ball movement target Player using quick movement interchange Dribble play.” 11 JANUARY 2011 www.elitesoccercoaching.net.

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