Combine to finish

Why use it

Gets players to understand how combinations of passes and passing into space can create great goalscoring situations

Set up

You need balls, cones and a goal. Set up an area 15 x 15 yards with a goal at one end. You need two cones 5 yards from the goal a couple of yards in from the edge of the area, two starting cones at the opposite end and three cones 2 yards apart in the centre. We used 7 players in the session.

How to do it

You need one player on each cone with an extra player on the starting cone and a goalkeeper. Play starts with a pass from the starting cone to a player at the three cones. He must make a quick movement from an outer cone to the inner cone and back to receive the ball (mimics losing a defender). The player then drives with the ball to a cone nearest the goal and plays a little inside pass for the player to run on to and shoot at goal one touch. To progress the first pass is returned to the server who plays past the three cones for the central player to run on to. Play is continuous.

Technique

Good movement, good weight of pass, straight pass for a bent run and timing of runs.