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Striker movement: check away, then go

Strikers practise the movements that create a yard of space: check away and come short, or show short and spin in behind, then finish first time.

U10 to adultAges
4 to 10 plus a keeperPlayers
Edge of the boxArea
12 to 15 minsTime

Your assistant coach: turn this drill into a full session, plan the weeks around it and tell me how it went.

โž• Put it in tonight's session๐Ÿ—“ Build my season around itโœ๏ธ Make my own version

Set-up

  • Server 25 m out with balls, strikers on the edge of the box, keeper in goal.
  • A cone or passive defender as the centre-back.

Equipment: Balls, goal, cones

How it works

  1. Striker makes a movement; server plays to feet or in behind based on the movement.
  2. Striker finishes in two touches or fewer.
  3. Add a live defender.

Coaching points

  • Move the defender first, then go the other way.
  • Short: open body, set or turn. Long: run across the defender.
  • Finish early, low and across.

Formations this drill suits

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Make it easier

  • Server calls feet or behind

Make it harder

  • Live defender
  • First-time finishes only

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