Eagles Working To Find The Right Combination

Hey everyone! I’m back for another update on how the preseason is going for us.

These last two days, a lot of the same things have been happening. We are trying to find the right 11 on the field together while working on moving the ball in the offensive third and keeping our shape in the defensive third.

On Tuesday, we ran another fitness test and everybody was supporting each other. Along with the fitness, we worked on a lot of team defense, and we worked on 1v1’s and some 2v2’s. Tuesday afternoon coach brought us out separately based on positions and we had to use what we went over in our positional meetings. That night we put it all together with the midfielders trying to get past the defense’s shape while the forwards worked on finishing.

On Wednesday, we worked more on putting it all together on the field, moving players around to get a feel. We spent much of the morning with the midfielders and forwards doing combination plays to help them with the transitions. With the break that we had in between the sessions we had to take our headshots, and along with the headshots we had to film a video about ourselves. And through all the mishaps and mistakes everybody eventually finished. In our last tactical session of the day, we worked more on combinations and the speed of play so that when the season starts we are on top of our game.

You can tell by the intensity of these sessions that everybody is excited for the season to start. And these few days are just a start to a great season!!

GO EAGLES!

Erin Holden