Soccer Defending Drills

Body shape - An exercise to improve the positioning and reaction of defenders under situations of noticeable numerical inferiority

Shooting - 4 v 4 drill to train possession of the ball, offensive phase, defensive phase and finishing

Possession - Ball possession game with 4 different areas for shooting, useful to train various tactical aspects, such as looking for a space, change of game, unmarking and then some technical aspects, such as shooting, lofted ball and headers

1v1 - 1 vs 1 situation useful to train oriented control, dribbling and finishing

Overlaps - Youth soccer exercise to train overlaps and finishing

1v1 attacking - Thematic match to improve dribbling, ball possession and finishing

Possession - Small sided game of 6vs4 which trains ball possession and the attacking and defensive game situations

Possession - Exercise of medium difficulty, useful to train ball possession on numerical superiority, pass and finishing

2v1 - In this 2vs1 attacking players must move inside a limited space, facing a defender

3v2 - Training the offensive and defensive situations in numerical inferiority