The final pass
This session works on patterns of play building up to the final ball into the striker. Important for youth players to understand the role of the support players in build up play. MORE
Attacking
The attacking soccer drills in this section aim to help you coach your players to make the most of the opportunities that come their way during a game. We look at ways to create chances for your attackers, small-sided games that will sharpen their reactions in front of goal, and tips on how to coach your attackers to be goal-machines.
Striker gets free
This involves making use of overload situations in your players’ favour, and finding space to score goals in 1v1 situations. MORE
Michael Beale’s multi-ball SSG
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
If your team hasn't won a match for a while, you need to get your players back to basics and working on their core skills. Try this small sided game to help them with their basic skills MORE
Aguero in the box
Passing and shooting from in and around the penalty area is vital if you want to score goals. This session gets your attackers doing just that. MORE
Driving range
Use this training session to show your forwards how to bring other players into the game in the final third of the pitch. This will get your players winning the ball and playing deep behind the attackers to play into them. MORE
Support and overload
Strikers need to do more than just score goals sometimes they have to hold the ball up until support players arrive to create overloads in attack. MORE
Cross, rebound, score
Scoring goals from crosses is a vital part of combination play in the final third. This session is all about scoring from crosses or rebounds MORE
Play off your forward
This session improves the relationship between midfielders and the centre forward. Midfielders learn how to create space for a forward to receive a pass and then get into scoring positions themselves. MORE
Pace setters
Ideal for grassroots teams to push opponents back and score against them. It helps teams break at speed quickly getting to the heart of the opposition defence MORE
Wide receivers
According to Fulham coach Steve Wigley this is a great session for passing and receiving, something that you cannot practise enough of if you want your team to retain possession and move the ball up the pitch into attacking areas. MORE
Playing with your back to goal
This practice improves attackers' understanding and skills with their backs to goal. MORE
Break For The Line
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
This session combines specific moves to help players understand team play and decision-making by playing out from the back MORE
Attacking gateways
in Attacking
This coaches players in the art of winning the ball back both as individuals and as a team, emphasising the value of players being hard to beat. MORE
Win games like the Champions
Liverpool are the Premier League Champions. Feeding strikers like Liverpool do with their amazing front three is the best way to get your team on the front foot and destroy the opposition before they have woken up. MORE
Pass or dribble
in Attacking, Ball Control and Footwork
This session is designed to help coaches look at the decision-making of the players. Can they take on the defender 1v1? Or is the right decision to keep possession by passing to a team-mate? MORE
Line drills
1v1 Split your players into two teams. To “score a goal” the attacking player must dribble past the defender and into the “end zone”. Encourage the attacking player to perform a variety of feints before powerfully accelerating with the ball into space. Give each team a turn at attacking, the team with the most “goals” wins. MORE
Crossing on the run
Having the ability to cross the ball on the run makes life difficult for the opposition defenders. This is one of the harder skills that wingers need and it helps them to catch out defenders on the counterattack without stopping or slowing the attack down. MORE
Crossing and finishing
This simple drill will help younger players to start thinking about coordinating the timing of a cross with a team mate’s run towards goal. MORE
High and low striker
This practice shows the advantage of forwards playing off each other and develops combinations with the wide midfielders. MORE
From defence to attack
Prime your team to go for goal as soon as possession is regained because that’s when opposition defenders are least prepared and so most vulnerable to attack. MORE
Between the lines
This session is designed to improve playing between the lines. This means getting players and passes into the spaces created by the opponent’s chosen formation. MORE
Return to play: work with striker and goalkeeper
in Attacking, Email newsletters
In the latest return to play guidelines you can easily work within the rules with your striker and goalkeeper – two key positions in the team. The focus can be on either player, but I am going to give my striker a workout which the goalkeeper can also learn from. I am always looking beyond... MORE
Return to play: gale force goals
Please check out the latest sport and social distancing guidelines in your area, and follow the recommendations when planning training sessions Pass, turn, shoot then move quickly to get back into position – this session works your players to get to the ball first and shoot quickly. Why use it On match days it is... MORE
Counter attacking
The ability to invite pressure on your defence then launch a rapid counter can devastate your opponents. MORE
