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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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Warm up: The shooting range

Warm up: The shooting range

This session will have your team peppering the opponents’ goal. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two progres...
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Spot opening – shoot

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

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

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

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

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

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

Overload Attack

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

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Scoring from crosses

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

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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Practice: Be the fox in the box

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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Find the target man

Find the target man

A challenging drill to teach your players the importance of build up play when setting up a target man with a clear goal scoring ...
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5 ways to shoot at goal

5 ways to shoot at goal

These are five of my go to sessions when I want to coach shooting or to give my players a good workout using both feet to put the ball in ...
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Sharp shooter

Sharp shooter

This session combines key attacking elements of passing, shooting and crossing. It moves quickly and positively and ensures players use ...
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Shoot from outside the box

Shoot from outside the box

This session improves shooting technique and gives players confidence to shoot from outside the penalty area. It helps players to see an ...
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Two runners

Two runners

This set is set up to improve general movement in players when they are in possession of the ball and attacking the opposition goal.

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Soccer Coach Weekly Issue 181

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  • Picking a captain
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  • Scoring goals
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    Four corners

    Four corners

    Great session for movement and combination play in the final third. Also has 1v1 against the attacker and shots on goal.
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    Skills slalom

    Skills slalom

    This brilliant training drill will encourage your attackers to control the ball and unleash a shot on the run – makes a great arrival ...
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    Inspire your players to score more goals

    Inspire your players to score more goals

    If you want to get your season off to a flying start, you’ve got to score more goals. Try our goalscoring sessions and watch your team ...
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    Striker combinations

    Striker combinations

    This session is about striker combinations and link-up play in the final third to break down tight defences.
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    Quick…Shoot!

    Quick…Shoot!

    Get your players running to the ball and taking lots of shots in this fast-moving but simple drill.
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    Fast central attacks

    Fast central attacks

    This session helps improve movement and interplay between midfielders and forwards. It’s designed to encourage understanding between ...
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    Kevin Nicholson Total Finishing – complete session

    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 ...
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    Total Finishing: Attackers V Defenders

    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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