Crossing & Finishing (Bob Lilley)

Here's a staple crossing and finishing game that Bob runs often (with a bunch of different tweaks):

It's pretty simple, but it creates a lot of game realistic crossing and finishing situations. The GK plays the Target who lays the ball off to a teammate who plays it wide (this is all free). The Wing receives the ball and crosses it. Three players attack (the Target and two other players) and two players defend (play is now live). The Target always stays but never defends. The other two players attack, defend, then rotate out for two new players. The ball is live until it goes in the goal or out of bounds or the defensive team wins it and plays their Target to go the other way. 

Possession Game (Bob Lilley)

This is a really simple possession game we play often:

Today, we played it where the players on the outside come inside when they receive the ball. There's no scoring (we don't often have scoring in possession games), but the goal is to keep the ball. The big emphasis are passing and moving, creating angles and getting the ball out of areas. We play it two-touch. 

"Fun" Warmup Progression

Here's what Bob did for warmups today: 

In a 20 x 20 box, with half the group (9 players per group) working at a time (the other half was stretching on the outside) ...

1. Tag

2. Tag while dribbling the ball (one ball per player) 

3.  One touch passing with two balls; you can't play the same ball two times in a row (play one ball then go find the other one)

4. Two touch rondo with two balls (7 v 2)