Channels

Aim/Focus

• Develops ability to go past a player
• Practices the skill of stopping a player running at you

How to Play

• Set up 3 channels, each approximately 30metres and 10metres wide.
• 3 defenders start at cone A at one side of the grid and 3 attackers at cone B on other side.
• Each attacker has a ball.
• Defenders decide amongst themselves which attacker they will follow.
• On the whistle, attackers run at random into a channel (one attacker in each).
• Defenders track their own man to whichever grid they run into and attempt to prevent them from getting from one end to the other by tackling, shadowing and dispossessing.
• Attackers must play the ball every 4 steps.

Progression

• Make the channels narrower

Equipment

• Cones
• Footballs
• Whistle