ATTACKING DRILLS AFTER BALL CONTROL

Drills from ex Watford Coach Gianfranco Zola.

Set-up: Position a mannequin just outside the penalty box. Have a striker stand in front of it.

Position two servers, 10 yards apart, 12 yards away from the mannequin with a supply of balls. 

The drill: On the coach’s command the two servers exchange passes between one another. 
Server Left then fires the ball to the striker’s right. As the ball is released the striker feigns to go to his right, before receiving the ball on his left which he controls on the turn. It’s important he opens his body out to receive the pass on his back foot. The aim of his first touch is to guide the ball past the mannequin and towards goal to set up a shot. His second touch must be a strike at goal. If the pass comes from server R, the striker has to make a dummy run left, before coming back to his right. The striker has to be alert and ready at all times because he doesn’t know when he’s going to receive the pass from a server.