TRANSITION DRILL
Key Coaching Points
• Movement of attacker to set-up body position to strike on goal.
• Read flight and weight of pass from server to decide on 1 or 2 touch finish.
• Observe movement and positions of defender and goalkeeper.
• Select technique to finish and concentrate on excellence of execution.
• Be ready to react and rebound any parried or deflected shots.
Practice Organisation
• Half pitch (working around penalty area) with full goal, as illustrated.
• 7 players (including goalkeeper), working in pairs, as attackers, defenders and servers.
• Supply of balls with each server.
• Practice starts with: defender makes short pass to server, turns to sprint around cone and defends against attacker one.
• Attacker one moves from edge of penalty area, to receive from server and strike on goal, using 1 or 2 touches only.
• Practice is repeated from other side with attacker two.
• After a pre-determined number of attempts: players rotate roles.
Details
• Prepare feet and body early on deciding technique to use to strike on goal.
• Controlling touch away from oncoming defender to create more space and time to execute.
• Shoot or eliminate defender before shooting if he is close enough to block or prevent early strike.
• Use body feints and disguise the actual timing of strike to unbalance defender and goalkeeper.
• Simple progressions for this practice are:
- Vary angles ball is served from.
- Vary distance covered by defender.
- Vary nature of service (aerial, heavy weight, swerve etc.)
- Introduce additional defender to chase attacker from behind as attacker moves to receive ball from servers.-
