Playing the ball out from the back

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This Sportplan Session gets your players working on dribbling, passing and their ability to look forwards when in possession deep in their own half.

Quite often when defenders are in possession of the ball they will hoof the ball up the pitch and play route one football. Although this is good defensively for clearing your lines it's rarely of use for your forwards who now have to compete for the ball in the air up against the opposition's tall defenders. To encourage your players to support the attack this session covers alternative ways for defenders to move the ball up the field. Say no to route one football

To get your players into the right mindset we start with a series of simple, but fast paced, passing exercises before setting up a final conditioned game which will see all of your defensive players having to touch the ball before passing the up field - keeping route one football well at bay!