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Crossing Drills and Games

If your team has good wingers you will be looking to get them wide and putting in some good crosses for your attackers. Crossing the ball requires specific soccer skills and creating opportunities to get crosses in requires certain tactical approaches.

These soccer drills look at how to get your team to score more goals from crosses.

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Scoring from crosses

Use this drill to improve your strikers’ first-time finishing from deliveries from out wide.

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Sharpen up strikers

This devastating attacking practice will give your players so many chances to shoot they can’t help but score.

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Make use of the wings

Encourage your players to link up and support out wide in three different ways. By JOHN WILLIAMS

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Small-sided game: Crossing and finishing

Use this session to develop goalscoring chances from wide areas. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two progre...

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Practice: Crossing and finishing

Use this session to develop goalscoring chances from wide areas. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two progre...

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Practice: Be the fox in the box

Give your attackers that killer instinct in front of goal with this drill to convert low crosses

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Attack high balls in the box

Session on heading for older age groups 16+. Please check your local rules on heading during practise. This is all about making the most ...

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Individual skill: deadly dead balls

Perfect set pieces can be a thing of beauty... but they can also spell disaster. Think of how many times you see a free kick sail over th...

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Create better crossers

Good crosses are a key weapon in any teams attacking armoury. Here players are encouraged to attack through wingers who cross the ball ...

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Find the space

This session shows you how to open up the pitch and exploit space behind the defence. Your players will learn how to drag defenders to one ...

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Wingers attack the box

This session develops quick, instinctive interplay on the wing, finishing with a cross into the danger area. It helps young players to fine-...

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Attacking wingbacks

Use this session if you want to see exciting attacking wingbacks who can either cross a ball or cut inside and shoot. Players can make use ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Return to play: Get players crossing

When your players get the ball into an attacking position they need to finish it off. This exercise helps them do that – it needs good ...

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Return to play: wingers

Great session for return to play with 5 players. Getting players used to passing and moving in different parts of the pitch is vital to ...

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Keeper gets cross

Having a trustworthy, proficient keeper positively influences the mindsets and playing abilities of all players in front of him. This is a ...

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Three amigos

This session is all about making full use of the width of the pitch when attacking the final third using wingers or wing backs to rip the ...

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Winging it

This session gets young fullbacks to recognise opportunities to advance down the wing and cross the ball into the attackers, adding numbers ...

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Create like Di Maria

A great training session to encourage goalscoring chances created from balls played into the penalty area by clever wingers like PSG’s A...

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Clever out wide

This session will show your wide players how to put good balls into the feet of attackers who are battling to try to lose a defender and ...

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Hit spectacular goals

It takes a skilful player to hit a shot on the volley first touch, but if your players have practised this session, they will have a great ...

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Goalie wars

When keepers catch the ball they can distribute quickly and set up a counterattack. This session has keepers on their toes trying to catch ...

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