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.