What session would you create to overcome a Scottish low block?
Hi Everyone, Welcome to another edition of our newsletter. I’ve found it really interesting watching the European championship from a coaching perspective. International football is the hardest to get right due to the amount of time you get with the players. Then you’ve always got the dilemma of picking the best players or the right combination of players. Sometimes the two don’t always match. Watching the England vs Scotland match, I wondered what exercises I could create for my players facing the same issues when playing against compact, low-block teams. wider overloads with a quick switch of play, having wide set wingers that hug the touchline, and also having the midfielders creating late arrival runs to receive the ball from the centre backs, and lastly having centre backs that are brave enough to play that ball into a tight midfield. How would you do it and what would you concentrate on to create the solution to those types of games?
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