berwickwolf
Just doesn't shut up
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Actually, if you watch it again, he's asking the players to look forwards and not just take the easy pass option. He's organising them from the back to shift one side to next, creating options.me too.
Back, back, back, back.
When the ball goes out -"I'll throw it in behind" (the defense)
Yes its a snap shot in time . A snippet of training.
But I would have preferred forward, forward, forward. Tora, tora, tora!
Dropping the extra ball in is something I used to do a lot in rugby coaching. It means you have to readjust to the situation quickly and work to give options to attack, rather than setting up a coach-controlled dynamic. The players have to take control, quickly, of a new situation, so it is more accurate to a game situation. A coach might have worked initially on certain situations and explained how he wants attack/defence to progress, but the extra ball allows for a more dynamic and open situation, like a counter attack in a real game.
I hope that what I've written doesn't sound patronising, but I think you misread the session on that score.
I'm no fan of Lage and hoped he'd go at the end of last season, but that one session is in a wider context of training that we can't see, and I personally think it's a quite good, player centered activity, and Lage has quite a good way with the players.