In partnership with

PHILADELPHIA UNION
Rene build up into strikers
Meulensteen SET-UP
Key
Ball

Build-
movement
1 The coach or server starts the game Player
movement
Area by passing a ball into the keeper’s
up into
Dribble

Full pitch hands from the halfway line

strikers Equipment
Balls, cones, goals
Overview: Number of Players
This session deals 16 plus 2 keepers

1
with creating Session time
overloads whilst 30mins 20
playing out from
the back, through What do I get the
midfield and into players to do? 2 The keeper
attack, creating 1v1,
The premise is to find 40 throws or rolls
2v1, 2v2 and 3v2 the ball out
situations. the extra man, and to to one of the
defenders
build play forward and 20
break the lines, and is 20
a set-up that occurs in 3 One of the midfielders
every game. Practice drops into the defensive
of the movement and zone to create a 3v2
overload elements
will cement good The neutral midfielder
works with the team in
habits and increase possession to guarantee
confidence, and this an overload
was a session we’d
run frequently at
Manchester United.
What are the key

Rene
Meulensteen
things to look out
for?
Tactically, we are
2 20

PHILADELPHIA
looking for the way
UNION players pick up their 40
Rene Meulensteen positions. Technically, When the team manages to
spent six years as we are looking for pass the ball into midfield the
the right quality of active midfielder moves back
20

assistant manager into the middle zone to create

to Alex Ferguson pass, with measured 20 a 4v3 to help others link the
Should the ball make it into
between 2007 and weight and direction. attackers, we have choices to
ball to the attacker
2013 in a golden era for A common fault make: condition this to be 1v1 (the
Manchester United, would be players other attacker and defender being
having previously been passive), adjust to 2v2, or allow a
giving the ball away midfielder to follow in for a 3v2
at Old Trafford as youth
by making the wrong
and reserves manager
for five years.
decision, so we Again, if defenders win
the ball back they can
always encourage directly pass or drive into
The Dutchman first
an early and simple midfield, stimulating a
entered coaching in
1990 with the NEC
pass. quick transition

Nijmegen youth side,

3
moving on to Qatar
three years later.
After leaving United in
20
2013 he took charge
of Russians Anzhi
Makhachkala before
joining Barclays 40
Premier League In the event of a
turnover, attackers
side Fulham. He is
intercepting the ball
20

currently a consultant should go directly for

for Philadelphia Union 20 goal
in MLS.
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