Playing Out From The Back
Pressure Build-Up Shape
Build from the keeper through the thirds
Playing Out From The Back
Possession
Goalkeeping
Pressure Build-Up Shape is a 20-minute playing out from the back drill for 8-18 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, bibs, full goals. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
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Possession
Goalkeeping
Skill Practice
Intermediate
Advanced
Full Squad
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Under Pressure
Duration
20 min
Players
8-18
Pitch size
42 x 34 yards
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Pressure Build-Up Shape — Goalkeeping set-up — serve, save, reset · 42 x 34 yards
Step 1 of 5The keeper starts every rep and the back line splits wide.
- 1. The keeper starts every rep and the back line splits wide.
- 2. The team plays through the press and dribbles through a halfway gate to score.
- 3. If the press wins it, they attack the goal immediately.
- 4. The defender is released the moment the ball leaves the server's foot.
- 5. The working player scores by completing the action before pressure arrives; the defender scores by blocking it.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- C = coach serving, S = second server
- Ball
- Cones mark the keeper's starting positions
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Keeper distributes back to the server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Build from the keeper through the thirds
- -Create angles that beat the first line of press
- -Recognise when to go long instead
Setup
- 1A defensive third with a goal, a back line and midfield support in a 42 x 34 yards area.
- 2Position a recovering defender behind each working player, starting two yards back.
- 3Balls in the goal, two sets of bibs, target gates on halfway.
Coaching instructions
- 1The keeper starts every rep and the back line splits wide.
- 2The team plays through the press and dribbles through a halfway gate to score.
- 3If the press wins it, they attack the goal immediately.
- 4The defender is released the moment the ball leaves the server's foot.
- 5The working player scores by completing the action before pressure arrives; the defender scores by blocking it.
Coaching points
- -Split wide and deep to stretch the press
- -Midfielder shows on the half turn
- -Go long when the picture is closed
- -Feel the pressure with your body, take the touch away from the defender
Common mistakes
- -Playing out for the sake of it
- -Full backs too narrow and deep
- -Facing your own goal and getting trapped by the press
Where this drill fits
- More football playing out from the back drills
- More football possession drills
- More football goalkeeping drills
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for U12s
- football drills for U14s
- football drills for U16s
- Football session plans built around this theme