WORLD CLASS COACHING
Advanced Shooting and Finishing Volume 1
By Luca Bertolini
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part Two
START FROM WIDE/DEEP AND SHOOT FROM CENTER/LONG
Dribble or pass from wide and deep spaces on the flanks and shoot from the center spaces out of the penalty area
Exercise 12: Receive and shoot on goal after a feint (1)
Sequence: The goalkeeper passes the ball outside the penalty area; the first receiver must control the ball and pass it again out of the penalty area toward a teammate who must receive, dribble, overcome an air-body with a feint and shoot on goal.
Variation: Fix a limit of time to shoot on goal.
Eye on: Dribble speed, feints quality and quickness to shoot on goal.
Exercise 13: Receive and shoot on goal after a feint (2)
Variation 2: This is a second variation of the previous exercise. The goalkeeper decides which is the air-body to be overcame before shooting on goal.
Exercise 14: Escape the marker and shoot on goal
Sequence: The goalkeeper passes the ball outside the penalty area; the first receiver must control the ball and pass it again out of the penalty area toward a teammate who must escape from the air-body receive, dribble, and shoot on goal.
Variation: Fix a limit of time to shoot on goal.
Eye on: Movements without the ball, quality and quickness to shoot on goal.
Exercise 15: Escape a marker, 1 v 1 duel and shoot on goal (1)
Sequence: The goalkeeper passes the ball outside the penalty area; the first receiver must control the ball and pass it again out of the penalty area toward a teammate who must receive, overcome the air-body, win a 1 v 1 duel against an opponent who is coming from his left or right and shoot on goal. If the defender recovers the ball, he can shoot on goal directly.
Variation: Fix a limit of time to shoot on goal.
Eye on: Feints, skills to keep the possession, quality and quickness to shoot on goal.
Exercise 16: Escape a marker, 1 v 1 duel and shoot on goal (2)
Variation 2: This is a variation of the previous exercise; the second receiver overcomes one of the outer air-body (on the left or on the right), win a 1 v 1 duel against an opponent who is coming from the center and shoot on goal. If the defender recovers the ball, he can shoot on goal directly.
Exercise 17: Shoot after a double 1 v 1 duel
Sequence: The goalkeeper passes the ball into the square space between the penalty area and the side line; a 1 v 1 duel is played inside there. The player who is able to keep the possession passes the ball toward the center space out of the penalty area, where a second 1 v 1 duel is carried out. Both the defenders must put pressure on the opponent in possession with the right time while he's receiving.
Variation 1: Fix a limit of time to win the 1 v 1 duels: after that the defender wins the possession or the second one can finish.
Eye on: Feints to win the 1 v 1 duel, skills to maintain possession, quality and quickness of shot on goal.
Exercise 18: Shoot after a 1 v 1 and a second 1 v 2 duel
Variation 2: The defender of the first 1 v 1 duel can help the second one, creating a defense situation with numerical advantage 2 v 1. If the defenders win the possession, they can finish directly.
Eye on: Skills to keep possession when outnumbered, quality and quickness to shoot on goal.
Exercise 19: Shoot after a 1 v 1 and a second 2 v 1 duel
Sequence: The goalkeeper passes the ball into the square space between the penalty area and the side line; a 1 v 1 duel is played inside there. The player who is able to keep the possession passes the ball toward the center space out of the penalty area toward a free player on the cone. Here a 2 v 1 duel is played with an outnumbered defender. The attacker can shoot only through a "killer pass" of the free player. The first defender must put pressure on the opponent in possession with the right time while he's receiving and the second one must be able to follow and put pressure on the attacker while he's dribbling toward the goal. .
Variation 1: Fix a limit of time to win the 1 v 1 duels: after that the defender wins the possession or the second one can finish.
Variation 2: The defender of the first 1 v 1 duel can help the second one, creating a 2 v 2 defense situation.
Eye on: Feints to win the 1 v 1 duel, skills to keep the possession with numerical advantage, quality and quickness to shoot on goal.
Exercise 20: Shoot after a 1 v 1 and a second 2 v 1 duel
Sequence: The goalkeeper passes the ball into the square space between the penalty area and the sideline; a free player receives there. Then the goalkeeper calls the couple in possession inside the center space out of the penalty area; one of those two must start form the cone as lower vertex to receive the pass and to play a "killer pass" forward toward his teammate. The defenders must recovering possession to try to shoot on goal directly.
Variation 1: Fix a limit of time to win the 2 v 2 duels: after that the defender wins the possession or the second one can finish.
Variation 2: The free player run toward the penalty area to win the second times of the ball for the couple in possession
Eye on: Skills to keep the possession, skills to play decisive passes, quality and quickness to shoot on goal.
Exercise 21: Shoot after a 2 v 2 + 1 duel
Sequence: The goalkeeper passes the ball into the square space between the penalty area and the sideline; a free player receives there. Then the goalkeeper calls the couple in possession inside the center space out of the penalty area; a second free player receives the pass being placed on the center cone and he starts a 2 v 2 duel.
The first way to finish is to play a wall pass combination and a killer pass toward a 3rd man.
The second one is to play outside again toward the first free player and to finish shooting receiving on the run.
Variation 1: Fix a limit of time to win the 2 v 2 duels: after that the defender wins the possession or the second one can finish.
Variation 2: The free players can try to win the second balls, creating numerical advantage (3 v 2 or 4 v 2) for the couple in possession.
Eye on: Skills to keep the possession, skills to play decisive passes, quality and quickness to shoot on goal.
