Tackling
Defend The Gate: Overload Rotation
Defend in a live game
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Defend The Gate: Overload Rotation is a 15-minute tackling drill for 6-16 players, suitable for Under 8 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, bibs. 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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Duration
15 min
Players
6-16
Pitch size
30 x 20 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Defend The Gate: Overload Rotation — 2 gates — score by travelling through · 30 x 20 yards
Step 1 of 4Teams score by dribbling through a gate.
- 1. Teams score by dribbling through a gate.
- 2. Defending team scores a point for every clean tackle.
- 3. Four minute games.
- 4. One team plays with an extra player for two minutes then the overload rotates.
- Cones mark the area
- Cone gates to dribble / pass through
- Ball
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Defend in a live game
- -Apply tackling technique under pressure
- -Protect a target area as a team
Setup
- 1Two gates on each end line of a 30 x 20 pitch.
- 2Two teams in bibs.
- 3Balls stored on the sidelines.
Coaching instructions
- 1Teams score by dribbling through a gate.
- 2Defending team scores a point for every clean tackle.
- 3Four minute games.
- 4One team plays with an extra player for two minutes then the overload rotates.
Coaching points
- -Press the ball carrier as they receive
- -Cover the gate before going to ground
- -Communicate who is pressing
- -Use the free player to break the first line
- -Defending team stays compact and delays
Common mistakes
- -Two players pressing the same attacker
- -Fouling instead of tackling
- -Leaving gates unguarded