Ball Mastery Session With Crawley Town FC

Saul takes the players of England Football League 2 club, Crawley Town, through a Ball Mastery Workout.
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[@arsenalogist4285]

This is really good. We should really encourage more these technical practices

[@ykya9405]

I go to that football pitch

[@SavvyFutbol]

Decent session

[@ykya9405]

3g

[@jumanji1109]

Explode. Not an athletic position to be found… glacial speed. Great intent… application is really bad… unless engraining terrible body position is the goal. Soccer doesn’t know what soccer doesn’t know….

[@tricolore1708]

So a first team work on ball mastery? Are we sure this is a first team? Besides the session is totally unopposed, zero realism to real game, I really struggle to understand what sort of benefit a first team can get out of this session? Maybe in youth teams, you csm do this 5 minutes and then put a skill into context

[@rollinwithrickettstv]

First team does NOT mean they can not develop themselves and their relationship with the ball. For example if you are a 8 or 10 who gets the ball in dangerous areas but lack sharpness or a weapon when trying to create a shooting opportunity for yourself, these drills will create more comfort swiveling, turning or taking on a player. Or a number 9 who only lays the ball off or just runs in behind can add another dimension to his game if he can hold the ball for a bit longer and swivel which may draw defenders to create an overload or create half a yard which he could not create before.

[@rollinwithrickettstv]

There are drills which you can them put on where they give these movements and skills more context. As simple as this session seemed it can be VERY EFFECTIVE if the coach connects it to game situations and then most importantly ENCOURAGES certain players to utilize these skill sets. I was shocked to see how similar Saul's sessions are to mines.

[@tricolore1708]

@@rollinwithrickettstv it is not the simplicity of the session the issue, not at all, a session doesn't have to be overcomplicated to be effective- the issue is the fact that it is completely unopposed and has no relevance to the game, unopposed repetitions are not useful to learning, the drill might look good to the eyes but not effective in terms of development and applying that skill in a game as the repetitions are unrealistic and without am opponent.

[@rollinwithrickettstv]

@@tricolore1708 The drills you saw up until that point of the session were both UNOPPOSED and SEMI OPPOSED! Saul obviously has progressions of the same or similar drills where it becomes OPPOSED. That's where you see if they APPLY certain core skills under pressure. It then turns into development!

[@nick1177]

@@tricolore1708 strange both arsenal, southhampton and ajax use unopposed