Crossing

Overlap game

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The overlapping game develops the relationship between your wingers and full backs when the team is in attack. MORE

Combine and cross

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Delivering accurate crosses from wide is a key part of any team’s armoury and the better your players become at it, the more effective your team will be at creating goalscoring opportunities. MORE

Crucial crosses creates goals

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Crossing situations are a great way to score goals. The practices in this session focus on a wide player’s ability to cross accurately and a forward’s movement to run into the box to score. MORE

Pick your cross like Navas

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Successful crosses involve skill, timing and teamwork. A chances. cross is like an accurate long pass – it needs to have a destination and it needs to be aimed at a specific area. Experts at this include Manchester City’s Jesus Navas and Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery. MORE

Cross country

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Dealing with crosses is something every team must be competent at whether attacking or defending. These practices place your players in match-like situations to improve your defenders’ ability to repel crosses and your attackers’ ability to score from them. MORE

Wide aerial bombers

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Teach your players how to get in the box and scoring from crosses and your team will score plenty of goals. The practices in this session will improve individual crossing, movement in the penalty area to lose a marker, heading and shooting from crosses. MORE

2v2 crossing

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Delivering accurate crosses from wide areas to coincide with well-timed attacking runs can be a rich source of goals for your team. Use this drill to practise the basics on a small scale and you’ll be rewarded on match day. MORE

Wideboys cross and attack

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Increase your team’s chances of scoring goals from crossing situations by developing game understanding for wingers – whether they have possession of the ball or not during attacks. MORE

Get wide and down the side

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When it is too difficult to attack through the middle, good teams create space by using the full width of the pitch. This allows them to cross the ball or pick holes in a defence that has been stretched. MORE

Three in the box

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Crosses into the box are only good if you can score goals from them. Here is how you can improve your team’s chances of scoring by encouraging your players to make forward runs into the opponent’s penalty box. MORE

Attack the cross

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This session is designed to improve your team’s ability to score from crosses. Finishing and crossing techniques will be worked on in match-related practices. MORE

Put accuracy in the cross hairs

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Creating opportunities to cross the ball into the penalty area will often result in scoring goals. Don’t miss out on this key method to win matches. MORE

Scoring from crosses

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Good build up play will allow wingers to exploit width, putting them in a position to get the ball into the box for your forwards to attack. This session shows your players how to turn these opportunities into goals by getting players on the end of crosses. MORE

Crossing combinations

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In a small sided game, goals scored from good combination play on the wings count double. Set up your pitch to be wider than normal in order to encourage use of the space on the wings. MORE

Crossing and finishing

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With so many goals scored from crosses it is vital that your players have the ability to create and finish crossing opportunities. MORE

Basic crossing

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Lots of goalscoring chances are created from dangerous crosses into the opponent’s penalty area, so it is important to teach your players the technique of how to deliver such crosses. MORE

Crossing on the run

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Delivering accurate crosses from wide areas is a key part of any side’s attacking arsenal, and the better your players become at it, the more effective your team will be at creating goal-scoring opportunities. MORE

Crossfire

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Improves passing, crossing and finishing with this game that gives players plenty to think about MORE

Crossing and finishing. play to your strengths

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When you are preparing for matches make sure you practice crossing and finishing during training so that the crossers of the ball are playing to your strengths not your weaknesses. MORE

Double crossers

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Scoring from crosses is something every team needs to practise. Rather than just a "hit and hope", successful crosses involve skill, timing and teamwork. MORE

Improve crossing skills with this exciting football drill

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This is a complex drill to help players develop three different kinds of cross. MORE

Wingers of desire

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To play like Manchester United you need to attack at speed and use wingers to devastating effect. Use this drill to create a potent attacking force that piles on the pressure in the box

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Cross the ball early when attacking a flat back...

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You often find with young football teams that the defenders are drawn forward when they are on the attack, leaving space behind them for your team to exploit. An early cross is the best way to do it, says Dave Clarke. MORE

Getting the final ball right – crossing and passing

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We won our latest match 2-0. It was a tight game and on the balance of play you wouldn’t have been able to call a winner. But we won. The winning difference was that when it came to playing the important balls – crosses or through balls – my players had the greater instinct to... MORE