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Professional football nowadays requires players to be able to play actions in a very small space under constant pressure from the opponent and to make very quick decisions.
Despite the weaker results recently, the academy that perfectly instills this skill in its players is FC Barcelona and the player of this academy who has recently made a great career in the Barcelona first team is 17-year-old Gavi.
So what should you pay attention to during your trainings so that, despite the fact that you are not currently training at the world's leading football academy, you can develop these key skills?
1) TRAINING CONSTANTLY BALL CONTROLS
In order to be able to think about improving the skills of "small game" the basis for this is, of course, perfect ball control.
You have to make sure that the ball is under your control at all times.
We have already written how to improve ball control many times in previous articles.
2) TRAINING GAMES ON A SMALL AREA
Another method that will improve your skills in this element are training games such as
- football RONDO
- GAMES WITH REDUCED NUMBER OF PLAYERS
3/3 4/4 5/5 as well as advantage games.
It is one of the most enjoyable forms of training.
If you have the opportunity to play with your friends in this way, do it as often as possible because it is both enjoyable and effective training.
3) GAME FIELD SCAN
It is very important during the game to have his head held up as often as possible and observe both the behavior of his teammates and plan his next play, and then it is worth observing and predicting the opponent's behavior!
Notice how the best midfielders in the world do it, such as Modrić, Fernandes, Pogba, Jorginho etc.
4) MAKE GOOD DECISIONS FASTER
Julian Nagelsmann, the Bayern coach, said that there are more and more players in football whose skills are almost perfect and it is difficult to give them something new during training, but he sees the greatest reserves and a place to develop players in the aspect of making good decisions on the pitch as soon as possible!
A very important element that you need to improve in order to develop in the aspect of making decisions is predicting the behavior of your teammates and opponents on the pitch.
Below you will find some video workouts to help you develop this aspect.
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