David Powderly: Transition And Forward Passing | FA Learning Coaching Session

David Powderly delivers a coaching session with grassroots players focusing on transition to attack. During this session players will work on pressing to win the ball back, playing forward as a priority when they win the ball back and utilising space to retain possession of the ball.
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[@aediasse]

This is a very good drill especially if you practice defensive transitioning
Points could be
1 point for x amount of passes in your box
1 point for the defending players stealing ball and passing it back to their box

[@mva5533]

I like it 👍👏

[@tjsfootballdevelopment4936]

Interesting practise, I see plenty of chance of success with transitions but no so much with forward passing, breaking the lines yes but then having to go to the side or backwards to keep the ball not forward. Can take ideas from this though and adapt it.

[@helGnT]

I thought the same. I like most of it, but would rather have a goal the team could work forward towards rather than moving backwards on auto.

[@Meat226]

I play the same game with my youth teams… 10 passes for a point kind of rondo. I’m designing a defensive transition session right now to prevent the opponents first action from moving the ball forward. Made me look at this video/exercise in a different way… maybe putting a small goal behind each end line, and after five consecutive passes, the team in possession can now attack a goal behind their own end line. So eventually their team shape becomes oriented to a direction and the defending players now have a space to defend and an actual “forward pass” upon regain. Thoughts?

[@brunoagustinho9895]

👍👍👏👏👏👏

[@harsyarangkuti7005]

03:13

[@lukacfc4022]

What happened to the FA bootroom website? it seems not to be working.

[@timcook4764]

Not a huge fan of the drill for the purpose of the training. Unless you’re training your team to play negative after winning the ball (which I think hinders development at the youth level) then this drill doesn’t make a lot of sense. I would want my teams to play forward after winning the ball. “Think forward, play forward”.
This is however a great drill to use for a counter pressing session. Win the ball back before opposition have transitioned their shape for possession. You can award a point if they win the ball back before 5 passes or seconds.