Team Shape
Compact Defensive Shape: Overload Rotation
Hold a compact defensive block
Team Shape
Defending
Pressing
Compact Defensive Shape: Overload Rotation is a 18-minute team shape drill for 8-20 players, suitable for Under 11 to Adults at 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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Defending
Pressing
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Intermediate
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Minimal Equipment
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Overload
Possession
Numbers Up
Duration
18 min
Players
8-20
Pitch size
Half pitch
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Objectives
- -Hold a compact defensive block
- -Shift together with the ball
- -Stay connected between the lines
Setup
- 1Defensive unit in shape across the half pitch.
- 2Six servers positioned around the outside.
- 3Cones marking the maximum width and depth of the block.
Coaching instructions
- 1Servers move the ball around the outside while the block shifts.
- 2On a pass inside, the nearest player presses and others cover.
- 3Two minute sets with feedback between.
- 4One team plays with an extra player for two minutes then the overload rotates.
Coaching points
- -Ball side compact, far side tucked in
- -Keep the lines within twelve yards
- -Move as the ball travels
- -Use the free player to break the first line
- -Defending team stays compact and delays
Common mistakes
- -Far side players staying wide
- -Lines splitting apart
- -Slow shifting