KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Building a team to perform tactics and strategies together
Invasion games: tactics and strategies to outwit opponents through football
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Your learning goal
I can perform in a team of increasing size and ensure everyone feels included.
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Building a team to perform tactics and strategies together: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can perform in a team of increasing size and ensure everyone feels included.
Key learning points
- Move: cardiovascular endurance and speed enable players to get into space repeatedly for the whole game.
- Move: explosive speed and quick reactions help an attacker to beat a defender and create a goal scoring opportunity.
- Think: instigating the offside trap helps keep opposing strikers away from your goal.
- Connect: organising your team formation and strategies requires strong communication and rapport to be effective.
Words to know
- offside
- when an attacking player is closer to the opponent's goal than both the ball and the second-last defender at the moment the ball is played to them
- tactics
- the planned strategies, and decisions used by players or teams to gain an advantage and achieve their objectives
- formation
- how players are positioned to balance attack and defence. The numbers represent defenders, midfielders and forwards
Common mistakes
When teaching the offside rule, pupils often struggle with understanding a player is offside when the ball is passed to them not when they receive it.
Use cues to show the moment the ball was passed. For example, you could ask the pupils to freeze just as the ball is passed to determine whether they are offside or not.
For parents, carers and teachers
- If your classes are not ready to implement the offside rule, you do not have to teach this. You could focus more on formations and positions on the pitch and skip this part of the lesson.