Positional Game 4v4+3

1. Mark a rectangle 20 metres wide and 30 metres long. Two teams of four play inside it. Three neutrals in a third colour: one on each end line and one in the middle.
2. The neutrals always play for the team on the ball, so it is seven against four.
3. A team scores a point when the ball travels from one end neutral to the other, through any of its players. Then it plays back the other way for the next point.
4. When the defending team wins the ball, the roles flip at once: they now play with the neutrals.
5. Play rounds of three or four minutes, and change the three neutrals every round so everyone takes a turn.

With seven against four there is always a free player; the question is where. The player on the ball looks for the pass that gets past a presser, ideally into the middle neutral or a teammate between the defenders, and plays back to an end neutral when the middle is closed. The players without the ball decide where to stand to open a line behind the nearest presser. The four defenders decide whether to close the middle or press the ball.