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Shooting drills and games

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These soccer shooting drills will enhance your players’ ability to beat the goalkeeper from many different positions. Shooting is a core soccer skill for EVERY player and we have some great ways to coach it.

We look at shooting from dead-ball situations, shooting while running, shooting first time, driven shots, and how to make the ball bend, curl and dip. We have great soccer shooting drills and games to help you coach the skills to all your players.

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Spot opening – shoot

This is a fast game of rapid one-twos, thinking quickly and, crucially, spotting the opportunity to score goals.

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Ten seconds to score

An activity to encourage your players to collect the ball at their feet, accelerate with it and shoot from distance.

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Score to gain a player

Teams start with one player, but a goal releases another. The more players, the greater the chance of scoring again.

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Better instinctive finishing

A practice to encourage one-touch crossing and shooting and enhance chance conversion.

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Pre-season Training – one touch shot

Quick shooting and pressing by the opposition creates a fast, fun shooting game which focuses player’s minds on shooting and stopping shots.

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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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Overload Attack

Use this coaching drill to encourage attackers to try something a bit different when they approach goal.

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Kevin Nicholson Total Finishing – complete session

With such a high percentage of goals, from grassroots to professional level, scored inside the penalty area, Kevin has come up with a ser...

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Total Finishing: Attackers V Defenders

In the final part of Kevin Nicholson’s Total Finishing Trilogy you can set up a competition between your attackers and defenders in a much ...

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Total Finishing: Finish All Areas

The second part of Kevin Nicholson’s Total Finish Trilogy brings the final pass into play with attackers scoring from all parts of the ...

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1v1 shooting challenge

Young players can fear 1v1 battles, particularly when taking an opponent on in a situation that dictates quick running and good ball skills ...

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Create goals from tight spaces

This session teaches players to create chances from tight spaces near goal. The challenge of time makes it important to play in the tight ...

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Pass to find the striker

Teams battle it out to keep possession in the 4v4 with movement and accurate passing – they then need to find a good pass to set up the ...

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Score from close range

This session is formed of three drills that create scenarios for players to practice shooting from close range. It is always difficult to ...

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Deadly finishing around the box

Use this session to improve the passing technique of your players so they can set up strikers with solid goalscoring opportunities close to ...

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Shooters

Shooters is a collection of games that improve your team’s ability to create and take shooting opportunities.

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Pin Point

This fun game works on passing and shooting low and accurately. Good passing and movement, attitude to shooting, accuracy before power and ...

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We run shooting drills but our strikers still can’t score goals. What can we do?

Your players need more repetition of the goalscoring technique – I know that isn’t easy because your players will say they are bored after ...

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Ultimate 4 v 4 Challenge

Ultimate 4 v 4 Challenge is from Michael Beale’s 64 Small-Sided Soccer Games manual

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On target

Encourage your team to play forward passes into the target man and then make supporting runs in order to receive a return pass to shoot.

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Passers v shooters

Each team in this game has a different objective to complete in order to be successful. One team works as the passers and tries to keep ...

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Two Goal Game - One Touch Finish

Two Goal Game - One Touch Finish is from Michael Beale’s 64 Small-Sided Soccer Games manual

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Bend It Like Becks

A great fun technique game that develops trick shots, swerving, lobs and chip shots

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7v7 to Score from Anywhere

Arsenal were once criticised for attempting to pass all the way to the goal but now Arsene Wenger is reaping the rewards of slick passing, ...

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