New today: 3v2 Practice 09
The whites attack one primary goal with a keeper in it, and the halfway line decides what a goal is worth: one point from their own half, two from the attacking half.
That makes 39 practices in The 3v3 Game. The full practice is attached below.
Attacking Transition: Risk, everything is now in the Risk collection
We've added a 60 page digital booklet to the Risk collection. Download it and print it off to take to training. It sets out one clear measure for Risk: a chance on goal within five passes.
There's also a live class, now available in the Risk collection. It works through why, when and how teams risk possession, with real match clips and three practices from the series. Every practice is built around three actions: commit forward, carry into space and combine at speed.
It sits alongside the 20 animated practices with session plans and coaching talkovers.
https://tactxcoach.com/programs/attacking-transition-risk-practice01-season-01
3v2 Practices 07 and 08 are uploaded
Practice 08 has a keeper in each goal, and the oranges get two points when they win it and score. Every time a goal goes in or the ball goes out, the coach plays the next one straight in.
That makes 38 practices in The 3v3 Game. Practice 08 is attached below, and 07 is in the library.
The Season Planner paperback has arrived
The first printed Season Planners are here. It's the same planner as the digital version already in the library, now as a paperback you can carry to the pitch.
It's built around one session a week across the full season: a season plan, four 8-week blocks with a plan and review each, 32 session planning pages and 128 practice spaces. If you'd rather write in it by hand, it's on Amazon as a paperback and a hardback, and can be with you within a couple of days.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HQ4TSN2L
The Tactx Season Planner is here
You’ve been asking us for a way to plan your season, and we’ve listened. Today we’re releasing the Tactx Season Planner. It’s a digital planner, and it’s the first of the coaching material we’ll be producing.
It’s built for coaches who train once a week and want every session to count. It takes you from the first week of the season to the last, and every session is planned, coached and reviewed the same way.
What’s inside:
Season plan and goals
Your squad, with a season focus for every player
Four 8-week block plans and reviews, with player targets and player notes
32 sessions to plan, with four pages each: overview, two pages of practices, and coaching and review
Each session built around the four moments of the game: in possession, defensive transition, out of possession and attacking transition
Up to four practices per session, each with coaching points, a progression and a regression
Your own coaching language, so players hear the same words every week
An interventions guide to plan how you coach each word: Direct, Discussion or Discovery
An areas and loads guide to help you set up quickly
Reflection after every session, every block and across the season
Season review
It works at every level, from grassroots to the professional game.
Free for all Tactx subscribers: https://tactxcoach.com/programs/tactx-season-planner-one-session-a-week
Not a subscriber? You can download the planner for £9.99: https://tactxcoach.com/programs/tactx-season-planner-one-session-a-week
If you’re using the planner, we’d love to see it in action. Share photos or screenshots of how you’re putting it to use in the comments below.
We’d also love your feedback. We’re adaptable, so tell us what would make it work better for you and we’ll work towards your needs.
3v2 Practices 04, 05 and 06 are uploaded
Practice 06 is the one to look at first. It starts with a rotation: the coach blows the whistle, the players move round anti-clockwise, and then the ball goes in for the 3v2. The progressions send them the other way, then into a different shape.
That makes 36 practices in The 3v3 Game. Practice 06 is attached below, and 04 and 05 are in the library.
New: Aston Villa v Man City – Narrow In, Narrow Out
Our latest tactical analysis is live. It's about how Emery's Villa used being narrow in and out of possession against City's man-to-man press:
• Playing through the press: the link pass, Manzambi dragging Khusanov inside, and the space either side of Jackson
• The central press and the jump: Gomez and Kamara
• A 3v3 in midfield and the space for McGinn
• The compact block: McGinn, Alysson and Manzambi's roles, and the lopsided 4-3-3
• Where the narrow shape can be weak: the early switch
The article is open to everyone. Subscribers can watch the full class, where David and Mikey go through every clip in detail.
👉 https://tactxcoach.com/programs/aston-villa-v-man-city-tactical-analysis
Which part of Villa's approach would you take into your own sessions? Let us know below.
3v2 Practice 03 is in the library
This one gives the defenders a different way to score. When they win the ball, they have to dribble it out through one of the two gates, and the coach always plays the 2nd ball to them.
That makes 33 practices in The 3v3 Game. The full practice is attached below, and 3v2 Practices 01 and 02 are there if you're working through in order.
The 3v3 Game: 3v2 Practice 02 is live
That's 32 practices in The 3v3 Game now, and the second of the 3v2s. This time the defenders have goals to aim at: when they win the ball, they go and score in one of the small goals on the opposite side.
The full practice is attached below. If you're working through the collection in order, 3v2 Practice 01 is there to go back to.
The 3v3 Game: 3v2 Practice 01 is live (Balanced overload)
The 2v2s are done and the 3v2s start here. Three attackers against two, and the coach always plays the second ball to the defending team.
The full practice is attached below. It's the latest in The 3v3 Game, the collection we're building with Peter Prickett.
