Field Hockey · Livello 3: Pre-intermedio · Sottolivello 3.2
Attacking Principles
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The phases of play with the ball, width and depth, leads and their timing, support leads and triangles, the overlap, switching the point of attack, interchanges, getting to the circle and passing before dribbling.
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Test 1The phases with the ballFai un test
With the ball: play it out, build, create chances.
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Play it out: no risks, set patterns.
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Set patterns help a team bring the ball out safely.
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Build: little risk, then more risk further up.
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Create chances: score, attack rebounds.
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Transfer play shifts the ball to the other side to find space.
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Attacking rebounds belongs to creating chances.
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Safe, then progressive, then decisive.
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Risk grows the nearer the opponents' goal.
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Safe passes near your own goal: playing it out.
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Test 2Width and depthFai un test
Teaching players to stretch the width creates space in depth.
Fonte: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Eight-a-side · richiamo
In possession, the left and right strikers give width.
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Width pulls defenders apart and opens gaps.
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Depth gives options ahead and behind the carrier.
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Two options to the sides and one in depth.
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Two options, either side.
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Running in the width and depth, with and without rotations.
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The wider the shape, the more space inside.
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Width, spread, gap, penetrate.
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Players holding the side-lines give width.
Fonte: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Six-a-side · applicazione
Test 3Leads and their timingFai un test
A lead is a sprint made towards the ball or into space.
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In the correct direction, at the correct tempo, into the correct space.
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Dummy to one side and move to the other.
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Lead towards the ball to receive it.
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Indicate clearly where you want to receive the ball.
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Short and long leads.
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Timing matters: early leads let the marker recover.
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Fake, go, ask, receive.
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Direction, tempo, space.
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A sprint towards the ball to receive: a lead.
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Test 4The support leadFai un test
Make a support lead after giving a good pass.
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It gives team-mates a passing option.
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Support leads determine the success of combinations.
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Always have two possible passing options.
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A player who moves after passing becomes the next option.
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Deep supporting leads to players in the striker line.
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Lead to establish clear passing links from the defence.
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Give, go, offer, get.
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The more options, the safer.
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Moving after the pass to offer an option: a support lead.
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Test 5TrianglesFai un test
Playing in a triangular shape.
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In a triangle, the ball carrier always has two team-mates to pass to.
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Give and go: square pass, then run onto a through pass.
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The centre midfielder is responsible for the triangular shape.
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In a line, one player is blocked from the other.
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Flat lines remove angles; triangles keep them.
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Staying inside the strikers maintains the triangle.
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Square, run, through, receive.
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More points off the line give more angles.
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A triangle gives the ball carrier two angles.
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Test 6The overlapFai un test
Running behind the player in possession to receive a pass.
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The runner creates a 2 v 1 on the wing.
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They need to receive and eliminate markers to create overlap.
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Wide players such as full-backs and wing midfielders are the usual overlappers.
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Drawing the defender opens the outside for the runner.
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Forcing an opponent into an area creates space elsewhere.
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An overlap leaves a gap behind; the runner must recover.
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Draw, run, pass, attack.
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One against one becomes two against one.
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Running round the carrier to receive: an overlap.
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Test 7Changing the point of attackFai un test
Receive a pass from behind, turn out, accelerate in a new direction.
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Switching finds the space the defence has left.
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Around the press: play deep to the sweeper, who transfers to the other side.
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Around the press means switching via the sweeper.
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Over the press: the aerial ball can destroy a tight press.
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Play into the press, suck the play in, then switch the ball out.
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A hard accurate hit with disguise to a high forward in space.
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Crowd, back, across, attack.
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Along the ground round, along the ground through, then in the air.
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Moving the ball to the empty side: a switch.
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Test 8Interchanges and in-out leadsFai un test
Interchange: players change their positions on the field.
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E.g. the left striker becomes the right striker for a while.
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A lead to the inside and then to the outside.
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It wrong-foots the defender so the attacker receives under less pressure.
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Swapping positions confuses the marking.
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Scoring: from a positional interchange.
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Positional interchange: depth and width.
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In, follow, out, receive.
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Swap, swap, doubt, release.
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In, then out: the in-out lead.
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Test 9Getting to the circle fastFai un test
Speed to the circle beats a defence that is still setting.
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Individually or with short passing combinations.
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Cut to the inside as soon as possible: shortest way to goal.
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A fast counter meets a disorganised defence.
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A fast attack after a turnover or a broken-down corner.
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Attack space or the reverse stick side of the last line of defence.
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Penetrate the opposition's defensive line.
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Win, release, run, finish.
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The ball travels faster than a player.
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A fast attack after winning the ball: a counter.
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Test 10Passing before dribblingFai un test
Passing is more important than individual dribbling actions.
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Individual dribbling skills without being selfish.
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Running without the ball is quicker than dribbling, and the ball quicker still.
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Dribble when space opens or no pass is on.
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Receive and early quick passes keep defenders moving.
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High tempo passing combinations.
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Look up: a free team-mate is usually the better choice.
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Receive, scan, pass first, then dribble.
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Pass first.
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Fonti
KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, USA Field Hockey 101, NFHCA notes, FIH history and official results; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered rules belong to the Rules category (Field Hockey - Rules of Hockey).
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 223
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary18
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide17
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey10
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting8
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Six-a-side4
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 14
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Individual tasks4
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the strikers4
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Skill plan2
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the midfielders2
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Eight-a-side1
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Defence line1
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary (counter-attack)1