Train the overlap out of central areas: the run round the outside, the pivot turning to face the run, and the clipped ball into the channel ahead of the runner.
Same Y as the base pattern, roughly 15m between stations. The base player passes into the pivot and sprints round the outside of him into the wide channel. The pivot takes a controlling touch, opens his body to the channel, and clips a firm diagonal into the space ahead of the runner. The runner takes it on the move, carries a few metres, and plays the arm on that side. The arm switches across the top, the far arm drives it back to the base, and the runner recovers to the base cone as it arrives. Alternate the channel every cycle.
The wall-pass version of this pattern asks the pivot to do the simplest possible thing: one touch, straight back, no turn. This version asks him to do the hardest thing a central midfielder does, which is to receive facing his own goal, turn, and pick out a runner he could not see when the ball was travelling to him.
That sequence is the difference between a midfielder who recycles and one who progresses. Receiving and setting keeps the ball. Receiving, turning, and releasing a runner in the channel moves the whole team up the pitch. It is worth training as a pattern precisely because the turn is the part that gets skipped when there is any pressure at all.
The overlap must go round the outside. Running inside the pivot puts the runner into the area a defender is already occupying and takes away the width that made the run useful. It also changes the pass: an outside run is released with a clipped diagonal into space, an inside run needs a threaded ball, and the two are not interchangeable.
Weight and height on the clip are what decide whether the runner keeps his speed. Along the floor is fine when the channel is empty, but the habit worth building is a ball lifted just enough to clear a defender's foot and land in front of a sprinting player. Clip it to the feet and the runner has to check, which hands the initiative straight back.
The recovery run matters more than it looks. In the pattern the overlapper jogs back to the base while the ball is switched across the top, and that jog is what lets the shape reset without a pause. Teams that stop to reset lose the tempo that makes the whole exercise worth running.
Save it to your private drills, then change the animation, adjust positions, swap equipment, or drop it into a session block. Or start from a blank pitch and build your own.