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0:00 Well, hello coaches. Welcome back. We're back with part two of defending in 9v9.
0:05 Uh, a lot of folks had some great comments on the first video. If you've missed that, I'll put a link in the description so you can go back and look
0:11 at that on the channel. Also, really appreciating all the likes and shares and thumbs up and subscriptions. That's uh really still climbing. I'm very gratified to see that. Thank you all. If
0:21 you're not subscribed, come on, help me out. Hit that subscribe button. Doesn't cost you anything and helps out the channel immensely. So today we're going to look at the second part of defending
0:31 a 9v9. And if you remember in that first video I talked a lot about 77. And I have a couple of videos out there about defensive roles of every one of the
0:41 positions in 77. So what we're going to do in this video is we're going to start by going way back in the wayback machine and going back to the beginning of the
0:49 second year of my teams playing in 77.
0:52 So September of their fourth grade year.
0:54 We're going to take a look at a game real quick to look at those defensive principles and then we'll fast forward into their fifth grade year, their first
1:00 year of playing 9B9 in September, October, and take a look at those defensive principles because again, I always say and I always will say a 77 is
1:09 my favorite format to coach and b everything you need to learn or at least to start to learn you can do in a 7v7 format. I sometimes use 7v7 formats when
1:19 I'm coaching 11v1 because I can get the principles across in a much simpler format and then just scale it up uh for the kids. So let's go take a look at
1:28 first uh fourth grade uh probably the third game of their season in the fall and uh we'll look at that video first and then we'll migrate into some 99 and
1:37 then we'll follow it up. All right, thanks. Okay, so here we are. We're going to take a look, as I said, at first 77 game because, as I've said
1:45 before in my videos, everything you need to learn, you can start to learn in the 77 game. So, we're going to take a look at those roots of where these principles
1:53 started and now we've carried them forward to 99. It's not too late if you didn't do it at 77, but this is a great format even if you have a 99 team to
2:01 play in in scrimmage if you want to simplify things for your players to help them understand some of the principles that you want them to do when you've add
2:09 one or two more players to the field.
2:11 This is the beginning of their second season of 77. So they're now fourth graders. So they've got a year under their belt when they were in third
2:20 graders. Now they're in fourth grade.
2:21 our town, we organize our teams by grade even though we play in a U10 2year bracket because we feel it's better for development and uh the results have
2:30 definitely borne that out. So, let's take a look and watch the first few minutes of this game. We end up winning this game 5 nothing. So, there's not
2:37 tons and tons of defensive for of defensive actions, but in the first five or so minutes, you can see the principles and the roots of it starting,
2:45 which is really what we want to see.
2:46 We'll run it like one and a halfx just so we can see the shape. I like to watch game video back when I'm analyzing it. I like to watch it at one and a half to 2x
2:54 because I don't need to rele every detail. I want to see the big picture flow and doing that at a faster speed helps me disconnect from the individual
3:03 actions and be able to just see the whole puzzle move around a little bit easier. So, let's do that. I'll pop up the playback speed and we'll get going
3:11 here. We do score in like the first minute, which is fantastic here. But then we'll see some of the principles going on. You can already see the shape
3:18 and the formation going on here. You can see here's my two center backs, wide players, just because we have the kickoff. Here is my in U7, we call that
3:26 our eight instead of a six. And there's our striker. So, we've got our 231 with that center midfielder being the one that can drop in between the two center
3:34 backs. I can tell you uh that number 31, he was a little bit of a wanderer in third and fourth grade because he was still in the mode of chase the ball
3:41 everywhere. But you could see him starting to figure out, hey, I need to help out my center backs. So again, it's not perfect. It's the real world. This
3:49 is what we deal with. So let's keep playing here. We'll just see it kick off. My keeper and one of the center backs is acting like a lunatic, but you
3:57 know, that's uh part and parcel for goalkeepers, right? All right. So here we go. We'll just play, you know, you can see center back sliding over. But again, even already, right,
4:09 we'll take a look at the defensive shape we have going on here. We have this player has slid over to cover the center. The other center back has come
4:17 over here. Here comes my eight sliding over. This player here is still the widest on the field. And here's my other winger. So, we're already in decent
4:26 shape. And my striker is starting to go away uh into that space up there. So, transition from defense to attack, which is always important no matter what the
4:37 age. Winger wins that ball, loses it, but there's the eight. comes right back into the play and steals that ball away.
4:44 Plays it out wide. We actually score here. Nice finish. And that's the actual that's the eight that actually finished the goal there. So, we won the ball
4:54 back, got up the field. Good for him. But again, you can see the beginnings. I'm hoping you can see in the speeded up clips the beginnings of
5:05 those defensive options. My striker goes and press plays up and then stays up high. We'll come up wide again. Really unlucky to honestly if you watch we watched the first five or 10
5:17 minutes of this game. Part of me wants to know how we didn't score more. Here we could say here what we've got is again some more of those principles. My
5:26 wide player is coming back to mark the player who's usually he's trying to go after. One of my center backs has come into here. Here comes my other center
5:34 back. Here is the eight coming back into the middle. wide player is a little late coming back, but he's also brand new to our team this year. So, he's only been
5:42 to a couple of weeks of practice and my striker is still up high. So, again, all the components of the things we talk about in 9v9, we're seeing in 7v7
5:51 already. So, let's just take a moment to talk about one of the other principles principles we talked about, which is playing defense on the offensive end.
5:58 We're going to get a throw in here.
5:59 We're going to take a shot. We're going to lose it. And then you're going to see ball retrieval. We're going to see that counter press to make sure they can't
6:04 get back up and out. Now, can I say in with any certainty why my center back is that far down the line? No, I cannot.
6:13 But at least there's one behind doing that little jig. You can see here we take a shot. Ball starting to come out and the eight wins the ball
6:22 back. Wasn't successful. Center back picks it up. The eight has it again.
6:27 Again, the center back now comes over, wins the ball. Second center back to the wide player. So, it's really difficult for this team to get out. Now they're
6:35 resorting to long ball. And you know, I'm not sure if he tripped or got taken down, but that's it. So again, we can stop it here just to give an example of
6:44 what it looks like early on at 77. And again, you can at 99 break your teams down, play 7v7, and work on some of these principles. Why? Okay, here we are
6:52 in 9v9. Uh, this game is probably the third or fourth of them ever playing 9v9. Uh, we're playing on local town. We are still in our quote unquote
7:00 transitional formation. So this is the 2231 I talked about. Uh, we can actually take a look at it right here. You can see here's my two center backs, then my
7:09 double pivot connected here, then my we'll call them a 10 wide player, wide player, striker. So, this is before we switch to that 323 or 341 depending on
7:21 what phase of play it is. But you can see the principles we talk about can work with many different formations.
7:26 It's just a matter of a set of roles that you want you get your kids to get used to. If we think about it, just like in 77, here's my pair of defenders. They
7:35 act as a pair. Then my pair of midfielders, which also work very much like a pair of defenders in this particular formation in the way we play.
7:43 So then we have our central midfielder there, our 10, who's going to act as a little bit more forwardplaced of that single midfielder that we had in 77. And
7:52 of course, we have our seven and 11, our wide players, and our nine up at the top. And let's not forget about the keeper. we'll see how important their
7:59 role is in different phases of play when we go forward. So, the first moment we want to look at is that principle of the counter press, having a structure around
8:07 the ball, even when we're attacking that if we lose it, we can win the ball back quickly. So, we're going to watch a little segment here at one and a half
8:14 times speed. And we're going to have a throwin. We're going to win and lose and win and lose and win and lose the ball multiple multiple times, but it almost
8:21 never comes out of the attacking half because our attacking shape has given us that structure. I'll also note a couple of deficiencies we have going on. The
8:30 first one right away is that uh this player, this center back really should probably be over here. And if you could hear the audio, uh you'll hear somebody
8:38 shout to him to move over. He kind of gets he they get fixated coming from 77.
8:43 They hey, one of us should be in the center circle when the other player goes wider, but that's on a much narrower field in a 9v9. We now have to just help
8:51 them adjust their expectations about the size of the field and say, "Yes, you might need to be near the center circle, but maybe you need to be the right edge
8:57 of the center circle when the play is on the far sideline." Let's play this through. See what we get. Throw in. We have possession of the ball. We try to play in the middle. They
9:08 try to play long. Actually, let's back this up just for one second because there's another component I wanted to show here. And that's the white team.
9:15 And what they're not doing well here.
9:17 And what it is they're not doing is they have no relief valve. Notice all of their players are at the 18 or lower. So there's no danger to my center backs and
9:26 my six. We can see them right here.
9:28 Here's my six. Here's my center back.
9:30 And like I said, this center back's in left field, but needs to be over here.
9:33 But they have nothing to worry about because the white team's closest player to the center line is this player here at the top of the 18. They have no
9:43 relief valve. If they win this ball, they're practically in a line. You can see them. I can almost draw a line through them all right across the field.
9:50 So for the white team, part of their structure is they don't have a structure. They've all just sagged back down and they're down there and they don't have a relief valve. And you'll
9:58 see when they lose the ball, they don't have a lot of options. Let's play this through. So we win the ball. Play long ball, but it goes right to my center
10:09 back. He wins it. We play in the middle.
10:11 Play try to play a little one two back to the center back. Bad touch. Okay, throw in again. This just goes on for a little while here. Good
10:23 move. Almost breaks through. Beats them.
10:27 Comes back. We're back in here. We try to switch the field. Bad touch. Player takes it. He drives. He's going to get met by three different players. We retrieve the ball again. We
10:38 lose it. We retrieve the ball again. But notice the entire time we still have a structure. I know it looks a bit messy and it is because we did notice that in
10:48 this formation we tended to flatten out.
10:50 But let's just take a look at the structure again three weeks into the season at 99. Four weeks I think on this one. Let's take a look at what we have
10:57 still. We have a center back. We have a center back. Our double pivots in here.
11:03 My wide player is hanging out behind there. My striker is over here. Or maybe one of my eights. Maybe this is my other striker actually. wide player has
11:10 collected the ball and the other 10 again is on top of it. So there is a bit of a cluster there. But around the ball we see one, two, three, four,
11:19 five, six green players against three white players. So even if they're successful at winning the ball, we're going to probably outnumber them and we still have passing options. We could
11:29 play backwards, we could play forwards into the corner space if they can switch the ball. You can see that eight is dropped into her center uh a pocket of
11:37 space right in the middle of the field right here. So, lots of options going on here. While the opposition has still no relief valve, there's no pressure on
11:46 that center back, this center back right here. If that pass goes backwards, all he needs to do is pick his head up and he's got three or four
11:54 options. Let's resume this through. See what happens. He turns, plays into the space. I think he uh wins a corner here.
12:03 So, we'll stop it there. But again, there's a principles of having a good attacking shape to then be able to turn that into a counter press when things go
12:11 south and still have options. The white team didn't have an outlet. They didn't have much structure. So, when they did lose the ball, they had no place to go
12:19 with it. And when we lost the ball, because our attacking structure was coordinated and had players in all different places, they worked together to win the ball back and outnumber the
12:29 team before they could transition and try to dribble out. Now, this next moment is something I mentioned in that video, and that is the mismatch of size
12:36 that happens a lot of times in these games, either U10, U12, it's a two-year bracket, especially in the U12 bracket between fifth and sixth grade. Some of
12:43 these kids just dwarf each other. My team is not particularly big, and they're fifth graders, and we're playing a team that's a mixed uh ages, both fifth and sixth grade, because that's
12:52 just how our league runs. And when they're in the far zone, they all kind of look about the same. But watch what happens when we come down closer to our
13:00 corner. what happens in this play and you're gonna start to see the size mismatch and what can happen in a game that sometimes could just break what
13:07 you're trying to do just by the sheer fact of size. So, let's watch this through. So, we we we've got some we we we got some possession here. We're
13:17 trying to keep a hold of it. We lose the ball. Number 74 in white. He's definitely in a better spot. He's coming through here now. Look at the size
13:27 difference right here. He's literally blotting my player out like we almost cannot see my player. That player is not a small player. He is average fifth grader, perhaps a little bit more
13:37 average. And the player that he just knocked off the ball uh right here, this player is actually tall, skinny, super fast, but just knocked off the ball like
13:47 he wasn't even there. And so what you're going to see next is what I like to call the bulldozer move. One v one, my player is too close. They're trying to get
13:55 through the player to get to the ball.
13:56 And you can see the size mismatch easily even at this range with a GoPro 20 ft in the air. Let's take a look and see what happens here. So he has the ball. He
14:06 kind of just keeps pushing his way through. As I like to say, it's the bulldozer move here before we get the ball out to clear it. Now they play out
14:14 here and you can see already we've won the ball. Take a look at our structure.
14:20 So let's take a look at the structure we already have going here. They sent the ball over. They had nobody out wide. So it was an easy collection. So, here's my
14:26 center back. Here's my other center back. This is my wide player who would come in to deal with the danger of this wide player next to him. This is one of
14:35 my sixes. This is my other six. This is my wide player because remember it was a throwin over on this side of the field to start. So, everybody was pretty much
14:43 pushed over here. Here's my other This is my uh 10. And my striker is still up top dealing with watching out for those.
14:53 I wouldn't say they're center backs because they also have players behind them. But as we transition here, you can see we're already moving up and out to
14:59 play. Let's see just what happens here. Yep. Finds that wide player and plays down the field. Get rid of those arrows. Almost a goal there. Hits the
15:13 player diving and whatever. Uh hits the crossbar on the way through. So again, we talked about from defensive responsibilities having that structure.
15:22 You could see it still there. They were still in the structure they were doing.
15:25 And then as soon as we won the ball, they were able to transition and they had a relief valve. If they needed to, that striker was hanging out up at the
15:33 top of the field in acres of space. If my keeper wanted to go long, they could have done that. But they played the right play. They played out to that open
15:40 space as we trans transitioned out.
15:41 Remember we talked in that video, a lot of times the weak side winger can release sooner than somebody involved in the play. that ball was all on this side
15:51 of the field and it transitioned over to the weak side when my keeper picked it up and my weak side winger just took off in that direction because they weren't
16:00 marking anybody or trying to fight for a ball. So again, having that ability to recognize, hey, as soon as we get the ball, I'm one of the outlets I can get
16:08 out. Just helps your team move along that much quicker from defense to offense, which is where you want to be, right? Okay, here we are a little bit
16:15 later in the season and we talked about the importance of your keeper and starting positions and being part of that defensive unit and being aware. And here's an example. So, I'm going to play
16:24 this through. It starts with a goal kick. We win it back because this is a team who doesn't play out of the back.
16:29 As I mentioned in my other video about playing out of the back and what to do if you don't do it in U10, you're certainly not going to start doing it
16:35 U12 unless you're really conscious about it. We're going to start with a goal kick. We're going to win it back. Keeper's going to pick it up and
16:42 he's going to punt it. And that's the action we're going to take a look at here is a some bad positioning by my players and b some good positioning and
16:49 decision-m for my keeper to kind of rescue them. Okay, so let's take a look at that real quick. Let's make sure we are at one and a half speed. Here we
16:59 go. So long ball attempt easily chopped down. Play the ball out wide. We end up with a shot on net here at some point.
17:08 Playing across from the wide player takes a shot. Good save. So watch what happens here. Let's stop right here. So this team at least has one or two of the
17:18 principles going on is on this transition moment. They've got players high including their striker up at the top here as well as some other players moving up. So from a defensive
17:29 standpoint, not a great thing. Look, because when we won that ball back, we were basically playing against only three or four defenders versus most of the team still being up. But the part
17:38 that I'm not super happy about is my positioning of my center backs and my six. Six is where I kind of want them to be in front of that striker, but my
17:49 center backs are too high. They're on this side of the field, they're not marking that striker very well. And typical of U12, when there's a punted ball and it hits the ground, it bounces.
18:00 This is why so many teams try to do this because they hope for this lucky bounce.
18:04 And here we go. Let's clear this and play it through. You can see the ball goes up. It's over the head. But my keeper does exactly what it is I want my
18:15 keeper to do. You'll watch. We come down here just to finish this before I go back. We actually end up winning a penalty and scoring from that whole
18:21 sequence. So, let's back this up and just take a look at what my keeper did.
18:25 That was so good. Hopefully, you noticed it. So, there's my keeper. There he is.
18:33 Look at the starting position. is right at the top of the box. Maybe I even want him a little further up, but again, he's a key component in transition for
18:41 defensive actions, having that player up there. So many coaches still subscribe to the whole sweeper stopper idea and it just infuriates me because all you do is
18:51 you play player teams on side. Your keeper is the sweeper. They play half of the game in the field with their feet.
18:58 Well, they put on the gloves. Their feet don't stop working. And what does he do?
19:03 He uses his soccer ability, not his goalkeeping ability, to come out and break up this play. So, the ball has gone over the center back because of the
19:10 bad positioning. Perhaps he should have been a little bit more vocal, but that's a skill that he's working on. Striker is on his way to be one-on-one with the
19:17 keeper. Never gets to that point because he comes off his line, chest the ball out, takes a touch, plays it forward, and then next thing you know, from that
19:27 action, we end up with a penalty and scoring a goal.
19:32 So using your keeper as that sweeper, making sure that their starting position is high when the ball's down the other end of the field is just another
19:39 component of having a defensive structure going forward. Make sure your keeper isn't glued to their end line when the play is going on in the other end. It's there's no reason for it and
19:51 it takes some time to work with those keepers to push them up. But over time, you will see so many benefits. I think there's another piece in this video
20:00 where same thing happens with our keeper. I'll see if I can go find it now. All right, I did. I found it. So, here it is. Let's take a look. His
20:06 starting position, second keeper in is actually even better. Look how high up he is on the field. The throwin is way down there in that corner. Here's a
20:15 center back supporting. Here's the six.
20:17 Here's my other center back. Maybe a little bit far to the left, but getting better. As we talked about, getting better. This is a few games into the
20:24 season, so they're a little bit better.
20:26 Um, and you can see the other team has no outlet at all. They're all basically at or below the 18 except for this one player here who's not marking anyone.
20:35 So, what's going to happen is we're going to lose the ball. It's going to turn over and because of my starting position and because of the my team
20:42 being comfortable being able to play the ball backwards and forwards, you'll see what he does to relieve this pressure.
20:47 Play it through. Center back has it. Not the best option there. Just trying to chop to try to play back. Happens again.
20:53 He's arguing with the coach because you know the coach is his brother so that's what he's going to do. So here could have been pressure on the backside and lost it twoon-one but
21:05 instead simple pass plays back to his keeper because his keeper was out off of his line. Ball moves up the field and out of danger here. I don't know what
21:14 happens. We'll just follow this through for a second. Oh, just goes out of bounds. So again, my keeper being available off of his line as part of the
21:22 defensive unit on the transition just means that instead of having to come or having this pass from my center back having to come towards the goal where
21:32 there's a player already rushing in, you can see here we've got this player here that's coming this way. If this keeper is way over here and we have to make
21:40 this pass all the way over to make, that's a long ball and a lot of time on a grass field to have it slow down if you don't hit it just right, etc., etc.
21:50 My center back, he's running. He's not really running where he needs to be. The danger's here. He needs to be worried about this. But again, still learning.
21:58 Instead, center back plays a simple ball down back to the corner because the keeper calls for it. Picks his head up.
22:04 Easy transition through the six. Plays it out wide. Just doesn't quite get there. Ends up going out for a throwin. So again, defensive pressure.
22:15 But here, take a look. Already there's our defensive structure in the offensive zone already. Widest player out with his marker. Center back. Center back six.
22:26 Striker in the eight. are kind of having a little chatting over here. I'm not sure what's going on, but here's my other eight. And then my other wide
22:32 player went to go get the ball. So, again, good structure all around. So, even if we lose the ball, we're able to counter press and get back into the
22:40 play. Okay, we have one more here. Let's take a look at uh we're definitely in our 323 or 341, however you want to look at that. You can see it pretty clear
22:50 here. Other team is kicking off the second half. And you can see here's center back, center back, six. So there's the back three because it's a kickoff. Uh we've got one player. So the
23:01 two eights just happen to be standing there. My striker just happens to be there. And there is my 11. And there is my seven. Uh so everybody's with their
23:09 marker best they can. Striker just pushed themselves to the side. The two eights are clogging the middle there.
23:14 And we're going to watch this through.
23:16 It's going to come down the right side and end up on the left side. And we're just going to look at a couple of components uh in this. But again, really
23:23 clear to be able to see the shape here.
23:25 So, we'll play. We're at one and a half times speed reminder.
23:30 So, we'll end up uh this ball end up going out for a throw in here. Let's take a look at the shape right here.
23:37 Okay. So, already you can see the structure of my team uh which is really pretty good. Right here is our, if you will, our back three and a line, two
23:46 center backs and a six. Next, we've got our two eights. My wanted player is in here because their person is there. And then look where my other white person
23:55 is. And then even more importantly, look where my striker is. That play my striker could literally stand at the top of the D because they're playing us all
24:02 on side. Um this game I believe was a five nothing win uh in this game and it wasn't even close. Um again, we'll look at something that happens with the white
24:13 team in this course of play as well. So we can have a little example. Let's clear this. What's going to happen?
24:18 Throwin's going to come and it's going to go all the way to the other side.
24:22 there was an opportunity to play up the field, but my left-sided center back here, um, this kid right here, he has a tendency when he's on the left side and
24:32 he has space on the left and he has a good weak left foot, he still takes a touch to the inside and we've actually addressed that with him because we see
24:39 it over and over again. He's getting better at it. You'll see what happens here. Um, little spoiler alert as I say.
24:45 So, we'll play it through. Ball just missed it. You know, welcome to the grassy here. cuts in where he should have just kept going with the outside
24:52 ball, but wins the thing. Center back's going to take the in, right? We start to get up the field. Lo the ball in transition. Comes back here again. Let's just one second
25:08 here. Let's just right there. Let's just take a look at our shape. Now, you can see my six is actually dropping down because he wants to be an option for
25:16 this throwin. So, he's actually stepping into here. And here's my other center back. Look where my widest player is and where my striker is. So, they're keeping
25:25 their distance, keeping the width of this. And at the same time, I still have a winger and two eights in this area.
25:33 So, there's three of us on this area.
25:35 But look, we've pulled the rest of that white team is all over there. There's nothing going on. You're going to see what happens in a minute here. So, throwing happens off a
25:45 shoulder. Get the ball. Little bit of a scrum. Eight. Keeps it. We play it out wide. Kind of steps on it. Plays it to the wide player. And you'll see what
25:56 happens. We end up. He pulls two players. Turns around. Cross in goal.
26:02 Actually a beautiful goal. Right. But let's take a look. Just bring this back just a second and see what happens here from the white team in terms of what
26:09 they miss. All right. So this whole time the goal scorer is eventually going to bleed this player right here. And you can see just as we came out of the
26:19 defensive action where he was marking that player, now he's starting to go in an offensive area. And the player who he was is supposed to be covering is ball
26:27 watching. He's not watching that player at all. Watch his run into the box with all that happens on the right side.
26:33 Again, we're in a really good structure.
26:35 You can see center back, center back.
26:37 You can just see the six right in there.
26:40 We got an eight and an eight right there. Uh, our striker is the one that actually picked up the ball and kind of stepped over it by accident and then so
26:47 play got in front of him and he's going to play out to my seven. Let's keep an eye on that far wide player and what the white team
26:55 player just doesn't do. Just hanging off his back shoulder just marking just marking and then he just runs in front of him and an easy tap in for a goal.
27:04 So great defensive structure in terms of my wide player keeping where he's supposed to be in case that ball turns over and then the white player not
27:13 keeping an eye on the person he's supposed to be marking when that ball comes across the box. It's such an easy tap in. So great examples of both that
27:21 defensive shape and structure where we've got multiple lines, multiple players around the ball and still outlets to win the ball to get the ball out in play. So there you have it. I
27:31 hope that you find seeing real world examples helpful. Uh way back when I did a uh analysis of a third grade team's first game and I had a lot of comments
27:40 of folks to do more. I think maybe I'll do more of that. Get down in the comments if you will if you'd like me to see, you know, a full game analysis uh 9
27:47 or 77. I have uh more videos of my teams back in their first, the second, and now their first year of 99 or their third year together. If there's something that
27:57 interests you specifically, uh, let me know and maybe I'll, uh, pick that up and do that first. But I'm hoping that you could see all the foundations came
28:04 from 7v7 and have moved to 9v9, giving those players clear roles. Wide players do certain things, central players do certain things, the pair of defenders does certain things, the striker does
28:15 something, and your keeper does something. And so having those roles and responsibilities, you can boil that down pretty easily in smallsided games, 7v7, 5v5, 3v3, 4v4, and arrange your players
28:27 to understand 4v4, you play in a diamond, two wide players, a nine and an eight. You have the basics of what happens in the big game right there.
28:36 Super simplified. The only thing you're missing, put two center backs behind them. You have 77 with a keeper. All those things you can do in smaller sided
28:44 games to reinforce the defensive principles. Now, all those concepts of one v one defending, 2v1 defending, 2v2 defending, all again things that you can do in small-sided games, and you can
28:55 build it up until you do things like those attack defend games that I've shown you a bunch of times where you're in a half a field and you set up the
29:01 team to either attack against a big goal with three or four attackers if you're focusing on attacking. Or maybe you put in five defenders and a keeper and you
29:09 attack against that if you're focusing on defending. But it's again, just focus on one side of the ball and work that from small to bigger. your kids can and
29:17 will get it. I don't care if it's wreck level, town travel level, or club level, whatever that means in your part of the country. So again, hope this is helpful.
29:25 Let me know in the comments if there's some other things that you might want to see live action for. Be happy to do. I have some plans already, but I got
29:31 plenty of footage to review if we need to. Nothing more to say. See you out in the fields real soon. Bye-bye.
