Wide Channel Turnover Game

Objective

• -React quickly to winning and losing the ball
• -Attack fast in the seconds after a turnover
• -Get organised fast when possession is lost

Setup

1. 1A pitch with mini goals at both ends and a coach ball supply on the side in a 42 x 34 yards area.
2. 2Mark five-yard channels down both touchlines with flat cones.
3. 3Balls with the coach, two sets of bibs.

How to play

1. 1Play a normal game with the coach serving new balls at random.
2. 2Every turnover starts a five-second attacking window.
3. 3Goals in the window count double.
4. 4The practice is started by a pass into one of the wide channels.
5. 5End actions only count when the ball has travelled through a wide channel first.

Progressions

• +Defender allowed into the channel to make it live
• +Raise the demand once the group is consistently successful

Regressions

• -Channel is a free zone with no defender at all
• -Simplify the area or the service until success returns

Variations

• -Switch the ball to the far channel before the end action
• -Run the practice on the opposite side of the pitch

Common mistakes

• -Slow reaction to the turnover
• -Everybody attacking with no cover
• -Everything funnelling into a crowded middle