In the hastiness of coaches and parents yelling "go, go, go!" from the sidelines on each and every possession, youth footballers will feel that they are in extremely time sensitive situations and thus their vision will be tunneled and often the ball simply goes down the field in a straight line, whether there is a decent option there or not.
To go deeper on this, players off the ball but surrounding the play also here the outside commentary of "go!" and follow a similar pattern, running straight down the ground towards goal with everyone else, going against everything we should be teaching them without the ball, namely being to create space.
Instead everyone invades the same space and your team's forward thrust is halted before it even starts.
Here's a quick video on what I saw a heap of during our game day a couple of weekends ago and how some subtle alterations can improve this greatly...
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