“21” Ride
The 21 ride is a solid mixture between passive and pressure. It also plays well into what the clearing team is trying to do to start to allow us to set up an adventageous “pole on pole” situation at the end
Off A Shot:
We start by pressuring the goalie with one attackman - hopefully filtering him to the far side
The other attackman should take away the BENCH side pole
The third attackman should lock the third pole (generally heading to the far side of the field)
Midfielders should “match feet” - take away all easy outlets to the SS and make sure the LSM doesn’t get over the top
If the guy you are matching subs, then you sub - if not, you stay out there
We get our LSM on the field when they sub theirs off
Once the ball moves to the far side pole. The down attackmen should shift over.
The Attack covering the goalie should chase the ball over
The Attack covering the bench side pole should shut off the goalie
This will hopefully force an over pass back to the bench side
NOTE: Attack man should work to force defenseman to roll back and move the ball. No need to try and take the ball away. DON’T GET BEAT up field
When the over pass is thrown is when the big shift happens: Since this is a long pass and buys us a few seconds.
Both down attackman get on their horse and chase the ball from behind.
The players locking mids shift. Our High attackman covers the SS farthest away from the bench (this is essentially the middy who will stay on sides but we still can’t let the D pole make an easy “one-more” pass to him
The Dmids should shift so we can release the LSM
We should leave the far two D-poles open
Once we invite the ball carrying D-pole to carry over the midline - the LSM can step up to play him 1v1
OUR DEFENSE NEED TO LOCK OFF THEIR ATTACKMAN!!!
Our LSM vs the clearing D-pole with no outlets creates an adventageous transition situation where we can pressure and hopefully cause a turnover
If an attackman or middy breaks a lock and gets the ball then we have to immediately retreat into the hole and play 6v6