Playing Out From The Back
Playing Out From The Back
Build calmly from the keeper under pressure
Playing Out From The Back
Possession
Team Shape
Goalkeeping
Playing Out From The Back is a 25-minute playing out from the back drill for 10-18 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, bibs, cones, full goals, mini 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
Team Shape
Goalkeeping
Match
Intermediate
Advanced
Full Squad
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Duration
25 min
Players
10-18
Pitch size
Two thirds of a pitch
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Playing Out From The Back — Goalkeeping set-up — serve, save, reset · Two thirds of a pitch
Step 1 of 3Every rep starts with the keeper.
- 1. Every rep starts with the keeper.
- 2. Building team must cross halfway in control to score a point.
- 3. Pressing team scores in either mini goal on a turnover.
- 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 calmly from the keeper under pressure
- -Create and use the third-man option
- -Break the first line of the press
Setup
- 1Full goal and keeper at one end, two mini goals on halfway.
- 2Building team versus a smaller pressing team.
- 3Balls with the keeper.
Coaching instructions
- 1Every rep starts with the keeper.
- 2Building team must cross halfway in control to score a point.
- 3Pressing team scores in either mini goal on a turnover.
Coaching points
- -Maximum width and depth on the first pass
- -Keeper is a genuine option to reset
- -Pivot scans both shoulders before receiving
- -Break the line into the third man, not hopefully
Common mistakes
- -Centre backs too narrow
- -Midfielder standing in the presser's shadow
- -Rushing a long ball at the first sign of pressure