Small-Sided Games

Wide Channel Game: Limited Touch Build-Up

Use the width of the pitch

Small-Sided Games
Crossing
Attacking
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Wide Channel Game: Limited Touch Build-Up is a 20-minute small-sided games drill for 10-20 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at beginner, 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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Small-Sided Games
Crossing
Attacking
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Youth Friendly
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Goals Needed
Speed of Play
Playing Out From The Back
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Duration

20 min

Players

10-20

Pitch size

50 x 40 yards

Ability levels

Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Objectives

  • -Use the width of the pitch
  • -Create chances from wide areas
  • -Defend the wide overload

Setup

  1. 1Five yard channels marked down each touchline.
  2. 2One attacker allowed in each channel at a time.
  3. 3Full goals with keepers.

Coaching instructions

  1. 1Only the attacking team may enter the wide channels.
  2. 2Goals from wide deliveries count double.
  3. 3Five minute games.
  4. 4Maximum three touches in your own half, unlimited once you pass the halfway line.

Coaching points

  • -Switch the ball to the free channel
  • -Time the run into the channel
  • -Attack the box with at least two players
  • -Support angles must be early and open
  • -Break the press with a quick two-pass combination

Common mistakes

  • -Playing everything centrally
  • -Channel player standing still
  • -No runners in the box

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