Attacking

Strikers are primarily judged on the goals they score. There are lots of skills that strikers need to possess, both from a goal scoring perspective and in general play and over the course of this series of blogs we will look at those skills and how coaches can improve and develop them.

Leicester City and England's Jamie Vardy  is a real counter attack threat, because he shows the desire, pace and intelligence to make these key forward runs behind defenders.

It's simple. To dramatically improve your teams goal scoring, put on sessions and conditioned games, like the one in the video, which will encourage lots of early, game related crosses into the danger area and coach attackers on wanting to get on the end of the crosses and on the timing, angle of their run and their finishing techniques.

Manchester United had an unbelievable 45 passes before Juan Mata slotted home their 3rd goal against Southampton. No doubt, Southampton were worn out chasing the ball. But, the final couple of passes in the attacking 3rd were vital to creating the combination play that resulted in the goal.

This blog continues on the theme of developing and improving strikers goal scoring skills, creating repetitive game related scoring situations and providing theme related games that focus on shooting and finishing.

Fifth in the series of waves, pass, support and finishing games

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