Session 12 - 16

SESSION: when and how to press

    FA county coach developer, Suey Smith, delivers a coaching session with grassroots players looking at when and how to press.

    Key objectives

    Players will develop their understanding of:

    • defending as an individual and a team
    • when and how to press
    • patient defending.

    Stopping the turn

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    Pressing high

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    When and how to press

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    QUESTIONS

    After you have watched this session, ask yourself the following questions:

    • How would you adapt or tweak the practice to make it appropriate to your own players?
    • What additional challenges could you set to make the practice easier or harder for individuals or your group?

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