Building The Attack | FA Learning Coaching Session From David Powderly

March 23, 2025 admin Player And Team Performance 50

Building The Attack | FA Learning Coaching Session From David Powderly

David Powderly, presents three coaching ideas to help young players build the attack. During this session players will develop their understanding of:

– How to play out from the back and through the opposition
– Inviting pressure from the opposition in order to exploit space
– How to utilise the goalkeeper to build the attack
– Providing support by dropping off
– Recognising opportunities to step into midfield

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50 Comments

  4. Great work for sure, but I would have drilled them to exaggerate the basic holding angles to the limit of exposing potential forward gaps. But we do see this closed off alot in high level play. But it the players in front move unified consistently adapting it helps to get through when pressed. Or, maybe two players unified in front can make controlled random positionional runs to make the forward link up. Or one best with a wing man makes the suckered dribble and quick advance with the wing man or use him as a decoy… Then all unit advance

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  5. Nice but the ball goes too slow, once the other team is pressing tightly the ball should be played one touch. Also I don’t think the defenders should try to dribble inside of your own box.
    Apart from that amazing

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  6. Very good video. While they say to not stop the play too much, I think proper development is you stop play more while you are working out significant opportunities for improvement and then you stop less once they have learned some valuable principles.

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  8. This is why England will never win a major trophy: the standard of coaching coming out of the F.A. is so, so bad. It’s basic, unimaginative, and uninformed. It’s also depleted of energy: shouting is neither enthusiasm, nor passion, it’s just shouting. English coaching is two decades behind the rest of Europe (most of it), and the best coming out of South America; building a huge, shiny facility with a grandiose name, expecting coaching to miraculously improve on the back of it, was delusional and stupid.
    You have ‘grassroots’ coaches who are mostly dads who weren’t very good players themselves, who are both unqualified and unpaid; on the other end you have ‘academies’ which are corralling kids at five and six years old and turfing them out at eight or nine – and they’re coached by this guy and others like him.
    The point is this: coaching, as espoused and evinced by every good contemporary coach/manager is little to do with the drills or the sessions, it’s simply when to stop the play, and what to say: coaching is talking. And this coach has nothing to say.

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  13. The coach and his players dont even know how to pass a decent ball. First, they should practice basic foot-ball and, then, forget irrealistic and stupid coreography. Play simple.

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  18. I’ve already explained my criticism of this coaching session. I’m not trying to pretend that everything can be done perfectly in one session, or that you can account for every mistake in every session. I just think you have to address the major fundamental mistakes first and foremost, and something very wrong happens in this session, namely players not spacing properly, players making bad decisions with their passes, and players not recognizing where to make themselves available. At 1:57, look what’s happening. One yellow player is pressuring a blue player, and the left back (out of the play) and right back (or center back that’s moved to the right) are effectively neutralized by one yellow player. That should tell you something is wrong with the scheme. This leads to a pass 2:01 to the right, where another yellow player instantly pressures the blue palyer. If you look now, you have five blue players (including the keeper) being pressured heavily by three yellow players. At 2:04 the system breaks down. There’s nothing wrong with the coaching or the players at this point. This is what practice is for. But you have to analyze what went wrong that led to the break-down. And in my opinion the problem was the decision by the player at 1:57. That’s where the instruction should have then been focused.

    Also, the right back at 3:32 stops playing, staying between the keeper and a yellow player, essentially taking himself out of the play. It’s no wonder the keeper decided to the other way, across goal, and his bad touch causes him to chase the ball down as he is being chased down by a yellow player. I would have corrected the right back for taking himself out of the play, thereby making the press by the yellows more effective.

    All that said, I recognize it’s easy to nitpick a video I can watch at my leisure over and over, while the coach is making decisions in real-time. My criticism is meant to be constructive even if my tone might suggest otherwise.

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  20. i love the coaching intervention at the end here, very well timed, and well paused with compliment at the start

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  23. This was my B diploma exam topic. I liked this coaching, especially his intervention and providing PLAN B with: "If this happened, what would you consider? If that happened, how would you change your decision?"

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  24. I love his intervention, compliments and apologies when stopping play in an abrupt manner! Learning so much from him!!

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  27. तेरो बाउहरुले गर्दा जन्ताहरु दु:ख पाउने देश डुब्ने साला उपनिर्वाचन हुँदा देशको ढुकुटी सिदियो साला

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  32. The coach is excellent, he’s delivery is spot on and brilliant at getting the boys to see the bigger picture

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  33. OMG 3:45 is my pet hate lol. Players, who even once you call freeze or hold, they continue to play or battle for possession 😂

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  34. Fantastic! That’s exactly how I want my team to play. Very well explained
    I have a lot of use for this

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  40. That what I do say me playing as a left back but my coach bring me to right back I make little mistakes but my central back doesn’t encourage but complain

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  45. On goal kicks, is there a change in the rules where teammates can now come inside the penalty box but opponents still have to stay outside box?

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  46. wish i had a coach like this bro. this coach is really calm and is someone you can truly listen to.❤️⚽

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  48. Very good exercice, but (depending on the purpose for the players) in order to be more acquisitive (tatical and technical) they have to discover the solutions by solving the problems caused by the opponents (guidance discovery), is very important to stop and teach some principles of the way you play, but if you give the answer right way they won’t understand the principle you are passing, just that specific situation (Using questions, instead of affirmative speech, is also a more effective way for the player to understand the principle). And coaches need to be careful the way they instruct we don’t want to narrow the possibilities to reach the objective, even if we are seeing something happen in a certain way I assure that the players have other options that we don’t see. Other thing, a exercise is only rich when there is competition, without that is not even a exercise, if we stop midle of the exercise the team that loses ball doesn’t really suffer from losing the ball (because the exercised stopped) and the team that recovers doesn’t get the benefit for pressing and recover the ball, that removes the acquisitive factor from the exercise. Sorry for bad English, I am Portuguese.

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