How to Coach Team Shape?

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[Kaiser1690]

Hi Folks,
I am trying to coach my junior men to keep their team shape in defence and offense phases of the game. Any good drills/tips you can give me for this please? We usually play man to man all the time in every position which makes it easy for us to understand but our opponents can simply spread us out and exploit gaps - that doesn't seem to be enough to convince them we need to change our ways though
I especially could use some exercises to help convince long time man markers that solid team shape can work just as well if not better.

Cheers.

[John]

try suggesting that they man to man mark only when the oppo have the ball and revert to your configuration when attacking.