He should also watch the recovery of the other defender into a support role, shifting towards his teammate, but staying close enough to his mark to be able to close down on the pass. One of the key elements in the second defender defense is the constantly looking away from the ball to the off ball side. The second attacker is to watch the defender and move if he feels the defender is not watching him. It will soon be obvious if the defender is not watching. If you only have one coach, setup the rest of the team in a game while you work with this subgroup.
Every soccer player needs to strengthen their abdominal muscles.
We try to do over a 100 of different types of abdominals every practice. We also will do ab work, when we finish a footwork exercise and we are waiting our to turn for the next round. Exercise of the Day - 1v1 Transition Divide an area into three zones. At the high school we used 20x20, but I suspect that 15x15 would be a good average size. A player starts in each zone.