Zone-by-Zone 1v1

1. Mark a pitch 10 metres wide and 30 long and split it into two halves. In each half, one attacker and one defender, who may not leave their half. A neutral player stands at each end. Six players per pitch; with more, set up pitches side by side. With five, use one neutral, and at the other end a goal is a dribble over the end line.
2. A neutral passes in to the attacker in the nearest half. The attacker gets past their defender and passes over the halfway line to their teammate.
3. The teammate gets past the second defender and passes to the neutral at the far end: a goal. That neutral plays straight back in, and the same pair attacks the other way.
4. The ball only goes forward: no pass back to the neutral who played it in, and no pass back over the halfway line.
5. If a defender wins the ball, they pass it to the nearest neutral and their pair becomes the attackers. Every four minutes, swap the neutrals with two players from the zones, so everyone plays every role.

Nobody can come to help, so each attacker solves their own 1v1, and it starts before the ball arrives. The receiver has a defender right beside them and has to get free: step away and come back, or show short and spin in behind, and open the body to see forward. With the ball, the choice is which way to turn and when. If the defender is tight, go past them with a turn; if they hang back to block the next pass, carry the ball at them first. The passer reads their teammate too: into the feet when they are marked tight, into space when they have room. The defender chooses between getting tight to stop the turn and standing off to cut out the pass that comes after it.